full-disclosure - Search and Seizure of Email

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Message-ID: <190DFDD2F99A65469B4B15D3658C0D2B06D030F9@PTC6.ponderosatel.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:16:14 -0700
From: "Daniel Sichel" <daniels@...derosatel.com>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Search and Seizure of Email

>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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