From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   maus@smaus.org wrote:   
   > By encrypting yoor messages, all you are doing is indicating that the   
   > messages contain things that you do not want others to read, and that   
   > allows the police to concentrate on encrypted messages .   
      
   Which is the very reason why the "encrypt everything" crowd argues that   
   everyone should encrypt everything all the time.   
      
   In a world where no one encrypts, except when they have a message they   
   want to keep hidden, then yes, an "encrypted" message stands out as a   
   big red flag of "look here, there is something hidden".   
      
   But, instead, in a world where *everything*, no matter how mundane, is   
   encrypted, no one encrypted message stands out as any more 'special'   
   from all the other encrypted messages.  Leaving the "police" with no   
   hint as to which particular messages to "concentrate upon".   
      
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