From: harka@nycmetro.com
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 19:30:56 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: store your private ke
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 -=> Quoting In:bryce@digicash.com to Harka <=-

 In> The non-cpunks that I talk to frequently say that "no bad guys
 In> would bother to read my e-mail".  This is a pretty good assumption,
 In> because it takes into account (as the cpunks themselves frequently
 In> fail to do) that there is a _cost_ to illicitly reading e-mail, and
 In> that as long as the value of reading your private e-mail is less than
 In> the cost of reading it, you can consider yourself safe.

Another point, that most PGP-"uninitiated" (challenged? :)) people
fail to realize is the non-individual-based approach to e-mail
snooping. Commonly people think, that first they have to be
specifically targeted by a "bad guy".
But in the times of Echelon and generic key-word-based filtering of
_all_ e-mails, that go through certain points (Satellite-Links
etc.), nobody has to be specifically targeted anymore, because
_everybody's_ e-mail is potentially read.
All other things you mentioned are of course valid too besides that.

Ciao

Harka

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