[Cryptography] Email and IM are ideal candidates for mix networks

Greg Broiles gbroiles at gmail.com
Tue Aug 27 18:01:59 EDT 2013


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Wendy M. Grossman <
wendyg at pelicancrossing.net> wrote:

> It's clear you're not a journalist or working in any other profession
> where you actually need to be able to communicate spontaneously with
> strangers.
>

And if the people who attacked the NY Times' DNS today had chosen to
replace the NY Times' MX records with pointers to their own mailserver . .
.  communications intended for journalists would be in the hands of the
Syrian Electronic Army, or whoever's actually responsible for the hack.

Unencrypted E-mail is going to result in someone's death pretty quickly, if
it hasn't already.

-- 
Greg Broiles
gbroiles at gmail.com (Lists only. Not for confidential communications.)
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