On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:38 AM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
There is no privacy for anything that you send thru an intermediate service provider unless it is strongly encrypted. You think that MTNL/TATA/whoever cant snoop on your data / voice /sms. While there are established legal procedures for snooping on voice and snail mail (now quite nicely mangled in the name of fighting terrorism), in most countries including Inde there are afaik no rules about net data.
In this case Google is getting it's finger into your data passing thru their services. But the nature of copyright laws are such that you could create hell for google if they attempt to misuse. Still no patch on automatically phoning the base ship WITHOUT you knowing.
No, you're wrong. Theres no privacy with even encryption used today because quantum computing can break any known keys. Given sufficient time and effort any encryption can be broken.
You want privacy? Sorry you cant have, I'll tap into your brain waves and learn everything about or else I'll drug you and get everything out of you.
Law? Who cares about it? A rogue sysadmin might be already reading all the porno websites you visited today! So please dont give false hope to people to protect their privacy using encryption / laws or whatever coz theres no such thing as privacy!