A practical approach to electronic privacy?

The web kids are throwing a fit about the U.S. government claiming that email enjoys no privacy protections under the Constitution.

Of course, buy cialis ambulance it doesn’t.

Anyone who is not a complete idiot understands that once an email leaves your computer it crosses a number of other computers where your message is completely available to be read or intercepted by anyone with access.

You have no expectation of privacy on the public Internet and that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.

Now, if the question is “should your electronic files/communications be private?” my answer is “in certain circumstances.”

On your hard drive? Yes.

Inside your secure WIFI or wired network? Yes.

Once you put it out onto the Net without any encryption? No.

On the Net, but encrypted? Yes. (In other words, you create the right of privacy by taking steps to make it private (even in a public space).

Any questions?

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