Yes it’s quite complex. What I took most notice of is if you are attempting to send confidential information that you do not want others to have access to, government agencies have no problem using whatever means necessary to acquire it if they wish.
I have worked with many companies in Silicon Valley, some of which were small startups, and competing companies acquiring proprietary information would be a severe blow indeed to most if not all of them.
Considering that the IRS, DOJ, and certain Democratic Politicians are quite interested in information they can use to damage and discredit individuals and political groups they wish to see destroyed, this is not a good development.
I mean, crikey! We already hear about stories from people whose ex-’s work for the IRS who get audited year after year, as well as some companies and conservative groups. Then we have Democratic politicians directing government agencies to target those who disagree with them or who they hold a personal dislike for.
This does not bode well for the future.
Can you hear it? The clack-clack-clack of the lowly 50lb, manual typewriter? Just like the LP record, just like the skateboard, it’s going to be coming back big time. The German Government has already been training many of it’s workers on various models. Just remember to keep that ribbon with you, until it can be completely destroyed. As long as I have some way to cleanly erase mistakes with throwing a cupful of white-out per sheet of paper, I would use a manual for ‘certain types’ of correspondence.
Yes. For anyone sending 3des, the NSA helped design it.
Think they built-in a backdoor. Theydid.
Further, they “invested”, per telcom act of 1996, billions of your dollars in most software and communications equipment out there.
The only to truly have secure comms is if you built a closed network and only transmitted on that medium.
All communications companies must give access to the Feds.