Chris Soghoain has an interesting article on how FISA may also apply to your emails, especially those coming from outside the USA.
Although we know Verizon and AT&T shamelessly handed over our personal data to the Feds without a warrant, Chris states that
What this means, of course, is that while the public outcry has been focused on AT&T, it should have included a few other firms, including perhaps Microsoft, Yahoo and Google.
If the NSA is interested in getting email messages, it can do so in one of two ways. First, it can tap the Internet backbone, through which almost all communications flow. Second, it can go directly to the major email providers.
Read his article here. It’s very good. If you are receiving emails from outside of the US, you have probably already been snooped. It’s time for encryption.
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