Comment I still don't get their point (Score 1) 156
Well, if FBI wants to sweep through e-mail in order to find a few criminals then fine. The only problem i see, is the point that anyone comitting a crime would be doing almost everything to make it impossible to be eavedropped by "canivore". I still suspect common terrorists will be using their PGP or similiar key encoding system, which will make it a though job for FBI
Secondly i see the problem here. If only a couple of messages are encrypted (like 1%), they will easily be able to find the offending data and try to decrypt it, but if each letter traversing the net were encrypted, it would be a hard task.
encrypted mail is armored against tampering and is almost always compressed in order to lower the number of repeats (which serves as a weakness to cryptographers).
So I personally don't see why they should be sweeping through e-mails on the backbone.
Secondly i see the problem here. If only a couple of messages are encrypted (like 1%), they will easily be able to find the offending data and try to decrypt it, but if each letter traversing the net were encrypted, it would be a hard task.
encrypted mail is armored against tampering and is almost always compressed in order to lower the number of repeats (which serves as a weakness to cryptographers).
So I personally don't see why they should be sweeping through e-mails on the backbone.
