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Re: who owns our data? Too true mate, same here with bells on. By what right do they think they can snoop inside the data packets I send? My data is private between me and whoever I am sending them to. If I encrypt those packets, isn't it illegal for anyone except the intended recipient to decrypt them? Or are they above the Law? Are these Laws only for the downtrodden masses to follow?
I can see a certain ISP losing an awful lot of business in the not too distant future! Virgin have their fingers in an awful lot of pies and the more fingers, the more likely when they get burned it's going to sting a lot! People don't like being SPIED ON!! |
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| said by Bluetacky :
Too true mate, same here with bells on. By what right do they think they can snoop inside the data packets I send? My data is private between me and whoever I am sending them to. Welcome to the Patriot Act, and the equivalent of such acts in Canada, Europe, and other western countries.
Under the umbrella "national security" they can snoop inside any data packets they want to snoop in, just to make sure you aren't emailing instructions on how to make a nuclear bomb from Home Depot materials.
That they.... as a side note.... then discover you are transmitting packets that the RIAA would be interested in, is just a nice fat bonus for the RIAA.
If I encrypt those packets, isn't it illegal for anyone except the intended recipient to decrypt them? Or are they above the Law? Are these Laws only for the downtrodden masses to follow? Not in the U.S..... they can decrypt whatever they want here, as they see fit. See Patriot Act above.
The thing is that encryption can be sophisticated enough nowadays, from any home computer, that it would take anyone not holding a key months, if not years to decrypt your secret recipe for..... CHILI, BlueTacky style.
I can see a certain ISP losing an awful lot of business in the not too distant future! Virgin have their fingers in an awful lot of pies and the more fingers, the more likely when they get burned it's going to sting a lot! People don't like being SPIED ON!!
Well, they have been doing for a 50 years or more with out regular mail. During World War 2 and the cold war, they used to x-ray letters from suspicious persons to see if they were spies. In the "war on drugs" virtually every central mail center in the U.S. have DEA agents with dogs, that will sniff out your mailed joint. That would be REAL "packet sniffing" right there! 
No one likes to be spied on, but the reality is that it has been happening for decades, and it will continue. And with such, they are forcing piracy into encryption, and when the masses start doing THAT..... the military that is trying to find terrorists now (that are already using encryption) will all over sudden have to sift through 99% of "RIAA interested" data instead of mostly email encryption.
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| said by maartena:The thing is that encryption can be sophisticated enough nowadays, from any home computer, that it would take anyone not holding a key months, if not years to decrypt your secret recipe for..... CHILI, BlueTacky style. How about never. Do you realize how long it would take all the computing power on earth the brute force AES-256? Longer than the age of the universe. |
