Re: Is this ALL good advise

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Subject: Re: Is this ALL good advise
From: John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 10:17:27 -0600
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Reply-to: jhasler@newsguy.com (John Hasler)
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20191203190229.437f2495@abydos.stargate.org.uk> (Brad Rogers's message of "Tue, 3 Dec 2019 19:02:29 +0000")
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 Brad Rogers writes:
> And as has been mentioned, people continue to use the
> google/yahoo/whoever surveillance webmail systems.  And let's face it,
> they're not going to offer encryption that does not, at the very
> least, have a backdoor in it.

Not cynical.  Given that they must be able to scan the messages for
business reasons[1] there is no way they can offer end-to-end
encryption.

[1] If the advertising agencies that offer those free Webmail
services couldn't scan the messages for data to add to their databases
how would they pay for them?  They aren't operating as charities.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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