Interesting article about NSA facility and capabilities

[Tony Naggs]

On 27 March 2012 11:16, Roland Perry <lists at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

> In article <20120327103630.00004833@**surtees.fenrir.org.uk<20120327103630.00004833 at surtees.fenrir.org.uk>>,
> Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> writes
>
>  I wondered if this might be an attempt to discourage the use of
>> encryption for email in particular, after all they're not going to be
>> able to discourage it for online commerce.
>>
>
> Does anyone encrypt email, SMTP email that is, rather than picking up from
> https://mail.google.com
>
> I'm very much in the "it shows you have something to hide" camp on that.
>

I've worked for several companies that have encrypted email links (VPNs I
presume) to their major partners, with instructions to use PGP for all
confidential correspondence if/when the encrypted link fails.
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