Subj : Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves it when you use PGP
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Jun 06 2023 08:34:00

Hello WvV!

** On Friday 02.06.23 - 08:44, you wrote to me:

 WvV> * Originally in MOBILE
 WvV> * Crossposted in PUBLIC_KEYS

 AA>> I bet gpg is more wide-spread in usage now than then.

 WvV> I don't see any evidence of that.

Well.. Thunderbird has supported PGP/GPG integration for years  
via plugins, and now it is practically built-in and part of the  
whole program. An implementation like that only begs to be  
discovered and used. If the coders for TB have done this, they  
must have had the evidence or requests for that.

Then there are all the other programs such as GPGTools  
GPGshell, etc.. that exist and continue to be supported.

I am sure friends tell two friends and so on, about these  
options to integrate more privacy in comms.


 AA>> Collecting and analying meta data NOW seems like a make-work
 AA>> project that wastes time and resources.

 WvV> Why do you think so. The NSA (and likes) wouldn't turn of
 WvV> their 2016 systems, if they still keep working and giving
 WvV> them valuable data...

Sure.. even for them change is hard. So, they just keep  
investing more and more resources to maintain this beast of  
collecting everything - but with a very limited feasible  
outcome.

They are forced to focus on narrow sets of data: a particular  
suspect or small group.

But even then, the associations between suspects/groups could  
be full of red-herrings.



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