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		richardwhiuk on July 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Set up an email server in two hours No it isn't. The email passes through the server unencrypted (between Postfix and Dovecot), so it's still a potential tap point. In fact, running encryption to the server simply says to the NSA: Ask Linode for access to this disk.

varikin on July 15, 2013 [–]

He used an encrypted FS I believe, but the NSA could just ask to monitor all mail to and from his instance at Linode (or any ISP) since he didn't encrypt the mail.

cenhyperion on July 15, 2013 | [–]

And they probably have most of the mail anyways because odds are he's mostly communicating with people using google, yahoo, microsoft, etc.

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