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E-mail privacy to disappear?
Mark Rasch, 2007-11-02

On October 8, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati granted the government's request for a full-panel hearing in United States v. Warshak case centering on the right of privacy for stored electronic communications. At issue is whether the procedure whereby the government can subpoena stored copies of your e-mail -- similar to the way they could simply subpoena any physical mail sitting on your desk -- is unconstitutionally broad.

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Re: E-mail privacy to disappear? -- encrypt all our emails 2007-12-13
The Cryptographer
You can use a program like Gwebs Webmail Safety (disclaimer: i work for gwebs) to protect your email with asymmetrical encryption - there is no simple hash to crack, the government, even with supercomputers, would need to spend years on each individual email to decrypt it... and with the volume of e...

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