Re: Pakistan to ban encryption software

Szymon von Ulezalka wrote:
No, it will be about as private as an ordinary non-encrypted email,
which
most people use perfectly happily. If you _want_ to use encryption
rather

which provides absolutely no privacy.

Don't be absurd. I can't read your emails, nor can you, without a lot of effort, read anyone else's.

than _need_ to use it, why is it not a fair question to ask why, and
to have a suspicion that the true answer will be 'for nefarious
purposes'.

are you locking your house, when you go out?

I'm sure normal email suffices. Why do you think anyone would be
interested in the slightest in intercepting your correspondence? Are
you very important?

do you have any idea how easy it is to get someone's else private
info, if send via unencrypted channel? PIN nunbers, paypal login &
password, facebook etc etc

No-one's saying commercial dealings should not be encrypted.

Don't be silly. Ordinary email is not at all easily intercepted by
all and sundry, so it's already in an envelope. And there's no
proposal to change that at all.

have you ever tried to sniff some package on some network? it is easy
to do so...

But to get to specific information that you might want to know is rather more difficult.

.

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