How To Enable Mom w/ Encrypted E-Mail?

Posted by Cliff on Friday December 30, 2005 @04:30PM from the maintaining-the-illusion dept.

mad.frog asks: "Given the recent revelations of the Bush administration spying on US citizens without warrants -- and their promise to continue doing so -- it's clearly high time for me to switch to encrypted email, after years of being too lazy to bother. The real question is how I can get all (or at least some) of my email contacts to switch as well; clearly, encryption does me no good if the recipient can't decode it. What are my options, and more importantly, what are the options that will be comprehensible and usable by my parents, and in-laws? (Keep in mind that good solutions must include robust Windows and Mac support...)"

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Why would you bother? Really. by danbeck · 2005-12-31 07:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Why the hell bother? I doubt the government is going to find interesting your Mother's pleas for tech support and yammering about whether you are ever going to come visit her.

Don't you just love a thinly veiled "Ask Slashdot" post that's really about more Bush bashing? What Bush has done is nothing new. Clinton did it, as well as other Presidents before him, from *both* sides of the isle. The President has explicit authority by the US Constitution to do what is necessary to protect this country from foreign nationals that intend to do us harm, up to the point of declaring war, which is reserved for the congress.

This is a non-issue.