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Time to start encrypting email again!

// October 9th, 2008 // Tech

You gotta love this. In the midst of a fiscal crisis and during the one time in our history when data protection and privacy are considered hot topics of the age GCHQ (who may or may not be based in Cheltenham and may or may not listen in on every phone call made in the UK mainland) are already in possession of 1 beeelion pounds with the possibility of a further 11 beeelion pounds to ensure that the boys in blue (and the men in black) will have surveillance access to every single email and web page that passes through the UK.

Personally I’m fine with this… if only because, if I have anything to transmit over the internet that I want to keep away from MI5 / MI6 eyes I encrypt it … heavily.

On an unrelated note, coming up shortly – a guide to using GPG to encrypt your email and secure your privacy for no cost at all

(hat tip – This is Gloucestershire)