Lawyers Would Rather Fly Than Download PGP

An anonymous reader writes "The NYTimes is running a front-page story about lawyers for suspects in terrorism-related cases fearing government monitoring of privileged conversations. But instead of talking about the technological solutions, the lawyers fly halfway across the world to meet with their clients. In fact, nowhere in the article is encryption even mentioned. Is it possible that lawyers don't even know about PGP?" The New Yorker has a detailed piece centering on the Oregon terrorism case discussed by the Times.

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Re:Security not just about encryption.

[SanityInAnarchy]

installing a keylogger on your system Seems like this one would be pretty obvious, especially given that you can now buy a computer capable of (at least) PGP for less than the cost of a plane ticket. Unless you're arguing that every single Linux distro, or every single computer sold, has a keylogger by the US government, it isn't going to happen.

or just sending a national security letter demanding access to your e-mails Whoops, my hard drive crashed. And gosh darnit, I forgot to make backups. You know, I'd really love to cooperate; here's my PGP key... Now, what was the passphrase again?

I'd rather take the airplane flight be more sure that I'm not getting bugged. Because it's not possible to bug the physical room. Oh wait, it is.