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Yahoo To Add PGP Encryption For Email
Bismillah (993337) writes Yahoo is working on an easy to use PGP interface for webmail, the company's chief information security officer Alex Stamos said at Black Hat 2014. This could lead to some interesting standoffs with governments and law enforcement wanting to read people's messages. From the article: "'We are working to design a key server architecture that allows for automatic discovery of public keys within Yahoo.com and other participating mail providers and to integrate encryption into the normal mail flow,' Stamos said."
Absolute bullshit.
In what way? Email headers are public information just like the addresses you write on a letter.
I never once gave the government permission to collect my *data* (everything is data, even "metadata").
Then stop broadcasting things publicly if you don't want others to see and collect it. Oh and if you use a third party to handle your email you likely did agree to such a thing somewhere in the ToS.
The government shouldn't even be collecting metadata from letters.
Because you say so?
Just because I send things over some company's servers doesn't mean I give the government permission to conduct surveillance on my communications.
Your email goes over much more than "some company's servers" and they are perfectly allowed to give public information to the government.
Like it or not, emails are rather different from normal letters.
What a great assertion. Now care to back this up with actual reasoning? Preferable something with a basis in established statutory/case law?