Date : Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:27:45 +0200
From : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: 8-bit Articles wanted for next issue of Drag 'n Drop
On 28/09/2010 20:14, J.G.Harston wrote:
> He's probably using a Blackberry which defaults to encoding
> ALL and EVERY email message.
That's not a great surprise, given RIM's attitude towards encryption and
security (will they or won't they work in India next month?).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/rim_encryption/
> The standard recommendation to fix this is to throw the Blackberry
> at a brick wall as hard as possible, and then beat the user around
> the head with a length of two-by-four.
Seems a bit extreme just because of an annoying (okay, very annoying)
behaviour with messages. If I had loads more dosh and RIM was willing to
provide secure communications and not bow to the whims of governments,
I'd be inclined to get a Blackberry for that alone. I'm starting to get
more than a little annoyed by this constant surveillance yet any dude
with an SLR is a potential terrorist. WTF, man, WTF!?
Oh, and it might be an idea to take a gander at:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/27/encryption_backdoor_legislation/
to see two things:
1. How much worse this surveillance could get, I wasn't aware western
civilisation was returning to the Soviet era, with us on the Soviet side
and:
2. How BADLY these twits fail to understand how the technology and
protocols work.
But, hey, we MIGHT possibly be thinking of nuking Delaware, or worse
Connecticut. Does anybody this side of the Atlantic even know where that
is without looking it up? Hell, how many Americans know where it is! ;-)
But maybe we'd like to grow mushroom clouds there. Or miss and take out
The White House (aka collateral damage). Better keep an eye on every
message sent everywhere ever... just in case...
<sigh>
Best wishes,
Rick.
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