PGP
Wed Jul 19 2000 at 19:24:13
The biggest reason in my mind to use PGP is to resist the government. That sounds pretty crazy. I don t mean resist in an anarchistic or Disestablishmentarian way but in the same way that one doesn t want themselves being frisked by police daily. (Which seems to happen to me alot. Maybe its the way I look.)
The FBI, NSA, DEA and other government agencies now have the ability to wire-tap pretty much anything they want to. Most recently this has come in the form of the Omnivore and Carnivore boxes, which are installed at an ISP and filter through all the incomeing or outgoing packets to pick out those of suspected criminals. This means they read all the information passing though an ISP. That could be anything mine or your private emails, to our banking records, to this node I write, right now. Maybe thats not a terrible thing but I will feel alot safer when my web browser uses cryptographically strongencryption