Slime & Villainy

[azurelunatic]

US Justice Department says that unencrypted e-mail is the legal equivalent of a postcard.

Hissyfit. Hissy, hissy, hissy, hissyfit.

Yay fucking patriot act.


More ramblings on the villainy thing
How evenly matched are the protagonist(s) and the Final Boss villain(s)?
Attributes which can match up a mismatch at Final Boss stage include:
intelligence
magic
sheer numbers
technology
underpants
???
profit
charisma/sexiness

Comments

[wibbble]

Actually, having read the article, encrypting your email wouldn't've helped. They were requesting the email headers, sans subject line, to get information on /who/ he was sending/recieving emails to/from.

That information can't be encrypted, as the system needs to have it in the clear to know how to route the message.

[azurelunatic]

Ah. In part owing to the hour, a lot of the subtleties were lost on me.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

And need we reiterate that the government has repeatedly attempted to pass legislation requiring that all encrypted traffic adhere to one or another form of encryption easily broken by the Feds?

[wibbble]

Or the RIP Act in the UK, which makes it a criminal offence (maximum of two years in jail) to refuse to hand over your encryption keys, and makes it a criminal offence (maximum of five years in jail) to tell anyone that you've handed the keys over.

If you've forgotten your password, you'll have to 'prove' that you can't remember it. Or go to jail.

So, fun stuff there.

[azurelunatic]

The first one, well, I can see. The second one had my feathers ruffled. Seriously.