[GRLUG] Exchange Replacement Opportunity

[Matt Behrens]

On Feb 12, 2014, at 12:40 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> * By always using SSL encryption, there is at some level of security;

This is true (to a degree—the CA compromise was already brought up in this thread), but

> * With the BILLIONS of links concurrently on the 'Net at any instant,
>  sniffing one conversation spread across multiple NAPs is a LOT more
>  complicated than receiving a  data dump from
>  Google/Yahoo/AOL/ATT/Charter, et al.

This is not.  The NSA’s apparatus is sprawling and can handle this just fine.

Now, if you’d said you were opposed to giving your email *to Google*, I’d be more with you.  Though of course they can read a large amount of it anyway since a lot of mail ends up passing through their hands anyway.

If you’re really concerned about this, you should be pushing for end-to-end encryption of the messages themselves.

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