I keep saying on this tiny blog of mine that encryption is super important. I’ve also previously mentioned one of the biggest downsides of using encryption.

Here is yet another real world example of why it’s so darn important to encrypt our Internet communications:

Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of thousands of Internet users at a time into massive databases, according to current and former officials. That database can subsequently be queried for names, e-mail addresses or keywords.

Read The Full CNet Article Here.

Doesn’t that concern anyone else? At all?

It’s not that you have anything to hide. Criminally speaking it’s unlikely that there’s anything significant for you to keep swept under the rug. Yet shouldn’t we respect our personal lives enough to actually care about keeping it personal?

Get the free Ciphire Mail (absolutely the easiest email encryption to use) or PGP to protect your email. Get Trillian to protect your ICQ conversations. All of this software is free.

~Steph