[Cryptography] Good private email

The Doctor drwho at virtadpt.net
Tue Aug 27 11:34:06 EDT 2013


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On 08/27/2013 02:32 AM, Sebastian Krahmer wrote:

> Now, thats an interesting point! Once all email is encrypted, how
> many mail providers would be interested in offering free service at
> all,

Another question might be, how many e-mail services would pull a
Hushmail (i.e., tout transparent encryption after it leaves the
browser (but is actually backdoored))?  How many people /who are not
us/ cared when that happened?

> and whats their business model then?

How brisk a business do the freemium mail providers do?  One gig for
free, fifty for $xus/month?

> Is it still valuable enough to sell the graph of connects?

Intel agencies have an interest in social graphs, which implies that
the data is valuable to some people who are not intel agencies, so why
not sell that data?  I read an article yesterday about a company that
mines Facebook and sells the data to insurance companies and suchlike
for making service and rate determinations, so it is possible that
this is already happening under a different context.

http://www.celent.com/reports/using-social-data-claims-and-underwriting

http://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2011/10/14/192987.htm

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2010/06/14/how-insurance-companies-will-influence-rates-based-on-your-tweets/

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