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Topic: Bill To Let Police Monitor Email
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Wintermute
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posted 08-22-2005 01:37 AM
    
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The Canadian federal cabinet will review new legislation this fall that would give police and security agencies vast powers to begin surveillance of the Internet without court authority. The new measures would allow law-enforcement agents to intercept personal e-mails, text messages and possibly even password-secure websites used for purchasing and financial transactions.
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FS
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posted 08-22-2005 02:05 AM
bah, LET them monitor their heart out.Just fucking finally provide user friendly cross-platform encryption systems. The technology is there, but the integration totally blows. -------------------- quote:
Originally posted by FS:
Wow, I can't believe I'm agreeing with FS on this one
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AcidWarp
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posted 08-22-2005 12:32 PM
Mute, the US gov is doing it, so why shouldn't ours?-------------------- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” --Dr. Stephen Hawking.
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FS
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posted 08-22-2005 02:06 PM
well, not much you CAN do besides the current system when it comes to public and private keys. You first need to either generate or import one, but surely that could be done with a nice wizard. Some crypto packages have those, and sometimes those are integrated into the email client.Then you need to import your friends' public keys, and that also should be as painless as possible. Key servers help of course, but the key is again email client integration with a nice wizard or other semiautomatic import feature. All the above works, but could be handier. What was the absolutely worst problem when we experimented with PGP was that different versions of the algorithm integrate with different email clients on various platform with various success. In the end, one person could not send another a PGP-encrypted file without the other person first saving it, then renaming it, then decrypting it before finally being able to read it. Talk about user friendly. Also there were problems with character sets, emailing multiple people, saving your encrypted email so that you can still read it yourself, etc etc. Not a production grade product, at this stage. -------------------- quote:
Originally posted by FS:
Wow, I can't believe I'm agreeing with FS on this one
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