On my neverending search for good arguments which I can use to convince people, that enryption is a good thing I came up with a new one.
The next time someone will tell me that (s)he has nothing to hide I will make the following proposal.
“If you are so unconcerned with your personal communications because you have nothing to hide: How about I install a tool on your computer that sends me a copy of every mail you write without notify you or the recipient of the mail of its behaviour?”
Then the argument might that unencryptened mails might fall into the wrong hands but at least these hands would belong to a stranger not someone who already knows the person. I would then offer to forward the mail to a complete stranger. [Anyone one here who wants to become that stranger?]
However, at some point it will be pointed out that this would not really be the same because there are so much emails that one would have really bad luck to have ones emails read.
By then I need a good reasoning which explains why the installation of said program and not encrypting your mails is basically the same. This is still not worked out, so any help will be appreciated.
Also to make my arguments more descriptive it would be an interesting experiment to find out how much one can learn about a person when having read their emails for a month.
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