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Why encrypt email?

I’ve gotten some questions about my HOWTO on email encryption over the past few days. I’ve already talked about how encrypting an e-mail is like an electronic envelope…But, here are a few articles you should think about:

I was hacked in Beijing
Never talk to the Police (law professor to students)
Never talk to the Police (former office to students)
Travel?  Want the gov’t to see your e-mail with no cause?

[Update 09-29-2010 17:05:47] Check out this post on another reason you should be encrypting your e-mail (and everything else)

Image from dunechaser via flickr

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Internet Speed Test

I came to a cafe in Cacak named Zuta Kuca. Literally, it means yellow house (that’s why the picture of the yellw house). They serve coffee and other things; however, they have free internet. I decided to do a speed test and see how it measured up. See the results below:

Image from the todor via flickr

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Orthodox Church Building

I’m trying to get better about blogging since we’ve been back and are getting into a regular routene.  I don’t know what it will look like…but, tonight, I’m going to feature a photograph that we took of an Orthodox Church Building on our trip to Mostar.  These are dotted all over the landscape here and, frankly, I thought it was a good picture.  Enjoy.

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Wow

Well, I don’t agree with Benny Hinn, but this video is pretty amazing.  Listen to the first minute and a half of the video below.  As some people say, “He’s giving them down the road.”  How bad do you have to be for Benny Hinn to get mad at you?!

via paleoevangelical.

[Update 04-11-2010 07:50:00] I wanted to add a comment that says I never thought I would see the day I would agree with anything Benny Hinn ever said.  In this one instance, I do.  I wouldn’t go so far as to call them demon posessed, but a great number of seeker sensitive people forsake the Gospel for some kind of “relevant” message.  Preaching the Gospel is much more important than getting people “to church.”  Who cares if you have 200, 500, 1,000, 10,000, 20,000, or more people in your “church” if they don’t hear the Gospel….if they never have a changed heart and a new birth what does it mean.  

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HOWTO — Encrypt your e-mail with Thunderbird, Enigmail, and GNUPG

Everyone should be encrypting all of their e-mail.  Why?  Well, let me ask you a question….would you write your wife, husband, sweetheart, etc… a message on a post card?  Why not?  Because everyone can read it, right?!  So, how would you send it?  You’d write it on paper and put it in an envelope, right?  Well, email is just like the post card.  Left unencrypted, it is just like the post card…anyone can read it.  Encryption works like an envelope so to speak.  It let’s you pack it up so people who come across the message in transit on the internet can’t read it (just like the letter).  Just like the envelope, it can be opened…it just takes lots of time to discover the key and decrypt it.

Need more reasons?  Check out this article.

If you are interested, read more …..

[Update 09-29-2010 17:05:47] Check out this post on another reason you should be encrypting your e-mail (and everything else)

Image of the lock is from Daniel Y. Go via flickr.  Other images below are screenshots by me.

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