Why bother with PGP?
The very nature of email communication makes it perfect for spying and tapping. Imagine all the emails that fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Every single one of them could be tapped without you even noticing it. Of course, thinking that someone will sit and read every single one of them is preposterous – but the “problem” is that nobody has to. But how do they find out what to tap? Imagine if the FBI (Or whoever else, for that matter) set up a server that searched all email messages for keywords, say terrorism, bomb, assassination etc. etc. The emails that were caught in this filter would then be inspected by hand, and (obviously) read. So far no problems, unless you consider that you probably don’t want people to be reading your emails. Whatever you send in an email is, for technological reasons, highly insecure. It has been said that “emails are as private as anything you send on a postcard”. Security is so bad, that anyone who can be bothered to read it can do so as they please. Of co
