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August 14, 2013 09:13 pm GMT

Edward Snowden: Unencrypted Email Isn't Safe

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According to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, you should assume that no email is safe, especially if it's not encrypted

"I was surprised to realize that there were people in news organizations who didn’t recognize any unencrypted message sent over the Internet is being delivered to every intelligence service in the world," Snowden told Peter Maass, a freelance journalists who profiled filmmaker Laura Potrais for the New York Times Magazine. (Potrais, along with The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, is one of the journalists Snowden initially contacted.)

See also: Is It the Dawn of the Encryption App?

Snowden, who is in an undisclosed location in Russia, the country that gave him temporary asylum, especially criticized journalist who don't use secure means of communicating with their sources. Read more...

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