[from occupied ga]

I typically use GPG the encrypt things like web pages, poems random blocks of text. My friends and I periodically sent these to each other just to give the government scum something to do, and BTW GPG if you use the larger key sizes is unbreakable even by the NSA. That is why the government HATES GPG and its commercial twin PGP. They want full access to everything you do, but don't want you to have access to anything they do. Seems to me that defines a slave/master relationship rather than a citizen and "government of the people" relationship. I also routinely encrypt anything of a non-trivial financial nature that I send via email. I'll send clear "I paid $13 for a new shirt at Penny's" But I'll encrypt something like "I sold 1500 shares of XYZ at $120."

I strongly recommend everyone download GPG now before the government forces them to install a backdoor. thank God for the Bill of Rights even if the government regards it as a minor historical triviality and doesn't let it get in the way of their ongoing goal to rule every aspect of our lives.

[Mycroft Holmes]

How many of your friends play this little game? I’ve been banging the encryption drum with respect to email for years to little effect. Nearly all of my friends are technical and none of them want to bother with encryption in the slightest. That makes the use of encryption really stand out. And if the person on the other end won’t play, well...

Unencrypted email has all of the privacy of a postcard. Anybody who has access to any of the many machines that handle the mail can read it with ease.