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Hello Wilfred!

** On Tuesday 06.06.23 - 16:28, you wrote to me:

 AA>> I am sure friends tell two friends and so on, about these
 AA>> options to integrate more privacy in comms.

 WvV> Support/availability doesn't automatically mean usage...

 WvV> And you will have to configure it in Thunderbird. Most
 WvV> users won't bother.

We/you don't know if people are not bothering. I get the  
occassional question about the signature file that my TB  
includes when I send a message. But unless they use TB  
themselves, they won't have an easy path to change from their  
confort-zone of the webbased gmail or outlook or hotmail or  
live.com

And.. there is the ever pervasive notion that "there is nothing  
worthy of secrecy in my email conversations, so privacy doesn't  
matter".

 AA>> Sure.. even for them change is hard. So, they just keep
 AA>> investing more and more resources to maintain this beast of
 AA>> collecting everything - but with a very limited feasible
 AA>> outcome.

 WvV> You don't know that! ;-)

There is no evidence that they have been successful in using  
that system.


 AA>> They are forced to focus on narrow sets of data: a particular
 AA>> suspect or small group.

 WvV> You don't know that! ;-)

Based on some articles that do get out on mainstream media,  
there is the occassional mention that enmasse data collection  
has helped them follow a trail of a suspect. But, then they  
have to ignore the billions of petrabytes of other info they  
have collected. But even if if get reported as such, that could  
be a ruse to keep the public in check.


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