3.3 million e-mails between the most powerful men are about to be released.

Haha if stratfor bothered to encrypt anything, I trust that they would keep the encryption keys in their home folder in a file called "ENCRYPTION KEY.PRIVATE"

Re: 3.3 million e-mails between the most powerful men are about to be released.

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Post by DevX101 » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 10:23 PM UTC

900 upvotes and 92 comments on the reddit thread, yet not one comment that is critical of this action.

To release the emails of private individuals and firms without any a priori evidence that they have committed any sort of crime is distasteful to me. It would be unethical if the tables were turned and ordinary citizens were getting their emails released. And its unethical in this case as well, regardless of whether the victims are powerful or not.

I supported the wikileaks 'collateral damage' video leak, because I think its important that our government be transparent and its citizen understand the ramifications of going to war. But this, I can't support it.

Re: 3.3 million e-mails between the most powerful men are about to be released.

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Post by mike-cardwell » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 10:34 PM UTC

mschonfeld wrote: post #6

mike-cardwell wrote: post #4

They should have used https://grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_E...

Haha if stratfor bothered to encrypt anything, I trust that they would keep the encryption keys in their home folder in a file called "ENCRYPTION KEY.PRIVATE"

Ideally you'd generate a new keypair for each employee. Move their private key onto an OpenPGP smart card, and give them that. Then encrypt all of their incoming email with their public key on the server as it comes in.

In case they lose their smartcard or you need to recover their email for any other reason, keep a second copy of their key, password protected, offline, in a safe. Or alternatively encrypt all incoming email with a second master key, whos private key is offline, password protected, in a safe.

Re: 3.3 million e-mails between the most powerful men are about to be released.

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Post by angersock » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 10:35 PM UTC

DevX101 wrote: post #7

900 upvotes and 92 comments on the reddit thread, yet not one comment that is critical of this action. To release the emails of private individuals and firms without any a priori evidence that they have committed any sort of crime is distasteful to me. It would be unethical if the tables were turned and ordinary citizens were getting their emails released. And its unethical in this case as well, regardless of whether…

It would be unethical if the tables were turned and ordinary citizens were getting their emails released.

It would be unethical if a company properly secured their servers.

It would be educational if ordinary citizens expected their communications to be completely private without taking reasonable measure to assure same.

This is a great lesson in security.

I supported the wikileaks 'collateral damage' video leak, because I think its important that our government be transparent and its citizen understand the ramifications of going to war. But this, I can't support it.

One of the ramifications of going to war, like it or not, is increased scrutiny. This is a weaker form of the "collateral damage" that our politicians and bureaucrats routinely write off.

Re: 3.3 million e-mails between the most powerful men are about to be released.

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Post by blurbytree » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 10:46 PM UTC

DevX101 wrote: post #7

900 upvotes and 92 comments on the reddit thread, yet not one comment that is critical of this action. To release the emails of private individuals and firms without any a priori evidence that they have committed any sort of crime is distasteful to me. It would be unethical if the tables were turned and ordinary citizens were getting their emails released. And its unethical in this case as well, regardless of whether…

And, it's the reason governments will clamp down and regulate the internet more and more.

This is why we can't have nice things.