Basil Chupin said the following on 10/27/2013 08:39 AM:
In other words, the ISP is my post office. Simple.
Doesn't this sort of arrangement exist in America? Or is that everybody is brainwashed to use gmail and yahoo and whatever-else-there-is for mail activity?
Yes, Basic, that's how it used to be, that's the old old model of the way the internet worked. But now its about politics and national security. National Three Letter Security Agencies find it easier to deal with centralized services than with figuring out a way to reach into every individual machine and extract details from each and every ~/.thunderbird on that machine. or ~/.kde4/kmail or whatever. And it might just be that with all those individual machines it may be that rather than the target machine being part of the Windows monoculture it is running one of the many variations of Linux, and the user is halfwaw security aware, which is much easier on Linux, and has not only set up very basic but very effective security but keeps changing it around, even when he's not changing the distribution. And who knows, perhaps that machine is run by or for a Terrorist organization. So yes, it is in the interests of that Three Letter Security Agency to brainwash not only Americans but people of ever nation to use gmail and yahoo and keep the American disk industry in business by storing the Petabytes of email and telephone conversations and web sites 'just in case' they hold evidence of terrorist activity. 'Terrorist activity' being defined as anything prejudicial to the State. We need to be careful. Advising people to use the old way of dealing with email such as you are advising, Basic, such as I've considered the norm, might be viewed as a terrorist activity in that it means the TLA can't monitor your contacts and build up its 'web of associations'. Yes, Basil, this has become a political matter. Its crazy but there you are. Perhaps we should end this thread now. -- When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1821 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org