Get Encrypted Email - Here's why
| Article by: Wade | Last Edit Date: 2020-02-12 04:58:26 |
Edward Snowden, a true hero in my opinion, tipped the world off about the government’s internet surveillance. I watched several interviews with Snowden on YouTube and he makes some very good points about why our privacy is important. In my own words, here is roughly the point he was trying to make… Why is Our Privacy Important? If you have nothing to hide, why worry about your privacy? This is often the argument of people who are not concerned with increasing internet surveillance. With more surveillance it will be easier to catch criminals and prevent crimes, won’t it? So perhaps it’s not all bad… There is a good example of this in the Bible when Moses was born. The order of the day was to kill all the male babies. If you did not kill your male child, you were a law breaker. Someone had to break that law for Moses to be able to mature into adulthood. Hmm… but this law was made by just one man, today in America we have a democracy and laws are made by the people… Consider this next example… There was a time long ago when women were accused by the majority of being witches and it was the majority who decided that these women should be burned alive. Was that judicial ruling ethical? Likely the women being burned alive had done nothing more than upset the wrong person. What I’m saying is there are times when it is necessary for people to break laws. There are time when the best moral, ethical choice is to break a law. I’ll also share my personal example. I take Hgh. My main, number one reason for taking it is because it helps boost my immune system. I used to get sick often and when I did get sick, it would last for weeks sometimes. Hgh has seemed to help prevent getting sick, and when a particular virulent strain of something does comes along, Hgh helps fight it off faster. But I have to order Hgh through the black market. I can’t afford to get it from a doctor and even if I could I doubt they would be comfortable prescribing it to me. Hgh used to be sold in the US at drug stores over the counter. Now it is a controlled substance and we are banned from ordering it overseas. It’s not a controlled substance to protect the people. Hgh is far less harmful to our bodies then say OTC pain relievers, McDonalds or most of the food in a standard American diet. Actually, Hgh is a very benign substance. But this law that makes Hgh a controlled substance is in place to protect the profits of the big pharmacies. The majority of people do not get the privilege or option of using Hgh, unless they break the law. The same thing applies with steroid use. While there may be harmful side effects to steroids, they still are much less harmful than many of the other things you can buy. Alcohol, cigarettes and Twinkies, for example, are terrible for your health and we’re still aloud to buy them. Here’s another example of someone breaking the law. My good friend’s dad is terminal with an aggressive type of cancer that is eating away at the side of his face. He has discovered through some extensive online research that cannabis helps slow this kind of cancer down. However, he lived in an area where cannabis wasn’t legal. Still, he would buy pounds of weed and process it into a capsule he could swallow. When his cannabis supply was good, his cancer would slow and even reverse, but when he ran out, he would decline rapidly. Finally, he chose to start growing his own to supplement what he buys. He’s breaking the law, but is what he doing really wrong? Shouldn’t he have the right to grow an herb that will grant him more time on Planet Earth? Point is, breaking laws isn’t always bad. Sometimes it’s good. People need room and privacy to be able to do this. Privacy is not for the protection of main stream people or very powerful people, but privacy is for the protection of the people who need to go against the grain. And many of us, at some point in time, for some reason, we will need to do this. This freedom is essential for the progressiveness of society. Constant surveillance and strict enforcement of all laws will only stifle a society’s growth and creativity. (You might want to read the book “1984” if you haven’t yet.) Already too much surveillance… My brother told me a while back that he and some friends were talking about a some baseball player, let’s say, Brian Roberts. One of the guys picked up his phone to google a stat and Brian Roberts was already listed as a suggested search. He hadn’t searched it before and it’s not a popular search. Our phones are listening… Another time my cousin changed her phone number and messaged me from a strange number but didn’t tell me her name. “Hey this is my new number,” is all the text said. It could have been anyone’s new number, but I guessed it was my cousin and I messaged her back, “I’m guessing this is Sam?” My IPhone immediately added a contact name to the number that said “Probably Sam.” Our phones are reading our texts… Use Encrypted Email! Emails that are sent from Hotmail, Gmail, Outlook, Mail.com, and other common carriers, are also monitored by perhaps some sort of automated system. I learned this also from firsthand experience. I had a mail.com account I used for distributing illegal substances. After some time, the powers that be blocked that email so it was no longer able to send or receive email. When someone would try to send an email to that address, it would simply tell them something along the lines that the email had been blocked by the carrier. I then knew our emails are being monitored… blocking emails of those engaged in black market activities. The solution to this problem is to use an email service that encrypts emails. Encryption means that while your email is being sent, it is written in a special code that cannot be read by 3rd parties. Only the recipient of the email can read it. Here’s some Youtube videos of interest: Ted Talks, How we take back the internet | Edward Snowden Stay safe and stay free! ♦ |
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