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Re: [Full-disclosure] Search and Seizure of Email



Well said!



On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Sichel <daniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> >In fact, law enforcement officials don?t even need a search warrant to
> >access private emails.
>
> In point of fact, nobody does, although acquiring this access is clearly
> easier for law enforcement.
> One of the burdens that the freedom the Internet brings, is the freedom.
> Your email is out there, typically unencrypted, available to anyone who
> can snatch the packets off the wire,
> Any ISP employee with appropriate read rights on a mail server.
>
> Take responsibility for your own email. Encrypt it if you must, but for
> heaven sakes, own the fact that it is publicly visible.
>
> If we do not take responsibility for our own email and whine about
> others reading it,  than there will HAVE to be regulations by government
> to protect us.
> That's what government does.  That's what it is SUPPOSED to do.  So
> before we invite Godzilla to protect our email, how about we just man up
> and take responsibility ourselves?
>
> But that's just the idea of a bunch of dead white guys like Edmund
> Burke, John Adams and James Madison, and what do they know?
>
>
> Dan Sichel
>
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