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It should be, I fully agree, unfortunately we live in a digital panopticon.
You can always use something like PGP to encrypt your communication.
True, sadly not many people show up for my key signing parties, even if I serve three kinds of chips.
Except in france.
Only if you trust the device your decrypting on. Wouldn't trust windows or Mac with information that could put me in jail.
Madcow -- While you are not wrong, we are talking about the unwashed masses here who are not necessarily savvy. "Private chat" really should have been.
TIL the of the word Panopticon. Thanks stranger