PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

[jlewis at lewis.org (Jon Lewis)]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Alex Rubenstein wrote:

>> I've always just assumed that if it's in electronic form, someone else is either
>> reading it now, has already read it, or will read it as soon as I walk away from
>> the screen.
>
> So, you are comfortable just giving up your right to privacy? It's just the way it is?

If you're sending it across the internet in the clear, it's not private. 
If you want privacy, use reasonable encryption.  Even with that though, 
unless you take other precautions, they know who [IP] you're talking to, 
if they want.

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