www/philosophy surveillance-vs-democracy.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       14/05/27 23:23:42

Modified files:
        philosophy     : surveillance-vs-democracy.html 

Log message:
        Clarify the email privacy point.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.23&r2=1.24

Patches:
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@@ -381,15 +381,16 @@
 resume this sort of surveillance, it would not get data about
 everyone's phone calls made prior to that time.</p>
 
-<p>For email, the simple partial solution is to use an email service
-in a country that would never cooperate with your own government, and
-which communicates using encryption with other email services.
-However, Ladar Levison (formerly owner of Lavabit) has a more
-sophisticated idea for an encryption system through which your email
-service would know only that you sent mail to some user of my email
-service, and my email service would know only that I received mail
-from some user of your email service.  This would make it difficult
-for spies to find out that you had sent mail to me.</p>
+<p>For privacy about who you exchange email with, a simple partial
+solution is for you and others to use email services in a country that
+would never cooperate with your own government, and which communicate
+with each other using encryption.  However, Ladar Levison (owner of
+the mail service Lavabit that US surveillance sought to corrupt
+completely) has a more sophisticated idea for an encryption system
+through which your email service would know only that you sent mail to
+some user of my email service, and my email service would know only
+that I received mail from some user of your email service, but it
+would be hard to determine that you had sent mail to me.</p>
 
 <h3>But Some Surveillance Is Necessary</h3>
 
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