The point of running a home email server, at least from an NSA masspionage perspective, is to avoid the issue of third party storage, because the SCOTUS' 3d party doctrine is what makes these things not unconstitutional. Of course that sort of ignores the truth that to use email, you need to use the internet, and engage many third parties on the travel path. That aside though, once you are relaying through your ISP's host, you might as well just be using your ISP, at least for purposes of the Feds getting their grubby mitts on it -- though maybe it doesn't matter when the just have splitters on any main line.

There are already javascript "Rich Text Editors" which do similar jobs

And what would stop this javascript text editor from sending every keypress to a parallel file or server prior to the encryption process?

Not just spying, but using this for ordinary crime. Kind of like how RICO was once upon a time ONLY for going after the mafia and then it morphed into something that applies to even the kid selling joints on the street corner.

The selling point for this program, to get people to accept it, is "terrorism", but it's already being used unconstitutionally by law enforcement for ordinary shit:

DEA Parallel Construction: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805

IRS Parallel Construction: http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/08/reuters-irs-manual-instructed-agents-how-to-hide-secret-deansa-intel/

Fruit of the poisonous tree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

This will just expand to the point that unconstitutionally gathered evidence will be used for everything down to parking tickets, like RICO metastasized into what it is now.

trade "racial/ethnic" for "religious/ethnic" in the last paragraph.

darn it!

Godwin's law is correctly invoked in a context where comparing a person/action/entity/whatever to Hitler or Nazis is hyperbolic -- it's sort of an insult to those millions who died in the holocaust when someone calls their boss a Hitler because they have to go into work early.

But, when the comparison starts to fit, Godwin's law doesn't apply, precisely because the comparison fits.

So for example, the Nazis focused on a religious/ethnic group and killed millions of them by factory methods.

Americans focus on a particular religious/ethnic group, and kill millions by war, drone strike, and the most devastating weapon of all, economic and trade sanctions.

So the question is, is the way the US is systematically destroying a racial/ethnic group different enough from that the Nazis used, such that Godwin's law may be validly invoked. If not, that's sort of "holy fuck" territory, a place that is very hard to go to intellectually -- so if your knee jerk reply is that Godwin's does apply you should examine that closely because it is really hard to tell yourself, that you're an evil cretin and so much easier to go with the kneejerk.

Check out our friends and allies: http://www.hrw.org/news/2007/11/15/saudi-arabia-rape-victim-punished-speaking-out

How about this, all leaders everywhere are evil mofos. I'll agree with that.

The 4th Amendment is clear and understandable. It took twisted SCOTUS logic to eviscerate it.

destroy the THIRD PARTY DOCTRINE and everything the NSA is doing is suddenly illegal.

The Supreme Court of the US has basically confused "perfect information security" with "reasonable expectation of privacy" over the last 30 or 40 years.

It is well-settled that when an individual reveals private information to another, he assumes the risk that his confidant will reveal that information to the authorities, and if that occurs the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit governmental use of that information. Once frustration of the original expectation of privacy occurs, the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit governmental use of the now-nonprivate information

https://www.casetext.com/case/in-re-application-of-the-united-states-for-an-order-pursuant-to-18-usc-167-2703d/ Scroll down to page 133.

In other words, because a 3d party MIGHT breach confidentiality, the Feds can FORCE them to breach confidentiality.

Funny thing though, if the NSA was a person, it would have waived its privacy interest in the Snowden documents by sharing them with a 3d party (Booz Allen), but it doesn't feel that way, even threatening Congressman Grayson into stopping printing the slides for his staff -- reason? Still Classified. One rule for them, one rule for us.

I know. I knew immediately after posting: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4048823&cid=44465501

nice. Apostrophe error, tag closing error. The idea isn't that bad though.

They needed the Boston bombing to justify the surveillance. They probably let it happen

Never ascribe to malice that which can be ascribed to incompetence ... the quote goes something like that. If it isn't obvious, it should be, that searching all the text messages 3 hops out from the guy who's message read "Dude, this IPA is the BOMB" means that resources are wasted and nobody really has time to focus on the guys the Russians explicitely pointed out.

Actually, this is very astute, a point made in the documentary The House I Live In. http://www.thehouseilivein.org/

I think what he was driving at, is that in order for the NSA to get information it is barred from getting by the 4th, it farms that out to GB and is delighted when GCHQ gifts them that info. I'm sure the reverse is true as well. It's a scam basically, to undermine human rights.

Just like the 3d party doctrine in the US. You know, if out of necessity you share info with a 3d party, you somehow have absolutely no expectation of privacy. The SCOTUS has conflated "perfect impenetrable secrecy", with "expectation of privacy" and has thus eviscerated the 4th amendment. One slip up, one necessary transaction -- that's it, your privacy means shit. And of course, the Feds won't play by their own rules -- you know, they should have no expectation of privacy in the info Snowden leaked because they shared it with a third party (Booz Allen Hamilton). But to expect them to play by the rules us serfs have to live under ... now that's unreasonable. Right? Right?

You aren't really paying much attention if this is the first time you've heard about GCHQ. Shutoff the CNN and bookmark this: http://www.theguardian.com/world/the-nsa-files

July 7: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/07/nsa-gchq-metadata-reassurances

July 2: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/02/nsa-revelations-debate-edward-snowden

July 1: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/defence-and-security-blog/2013/jul/01/gchq-nsa-eu

June 27: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/27/snoopers-charter-zero-chance-law

June 25: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/25/nsa-gchq-spy-germans

June 22: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/23/mi5-feared-gchq-went-too-far

June 22: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/22/gchq-internet-snooping-kafkaesque

June 22: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/22/gchq-spying-catastrophe-german-politicans

June 22: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/22/gchq-uksecurity

June 21: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/21/gchq-mastery-internet-mastery-everyone

June 21: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/how-does-gchq-internet-surveillance-work

June 21: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-mastering-the-internet

June 21: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa

Fuck counseling. How about a few decades in that PMITA Federal prison system they built to house pot heads.

I kind of think that is going to have to happen in the future because there will be so much surplus labor. It just doesn't seem that there is enough work to go around anymore.