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The House Passes the Email Privacy Act

On Monday, The U.S. House of Representatives approved HR 387, The Email Privacy Act, which updates the nation’s email surveillance laws so that federal investigators are required to obtain a court-ordered warrant for access to older stored emails.
I guess this shouldn't have been too much of a surprise, because last year, the House also passed this bill - unanimously.
So why isn't it law? The Senate! It stalled there last year, never getting to a vote. The bill's champions are concerned that the same thing will happen this year.
I'm going to find out more information about when this bill will be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and let you know what you can do to encourage it in committee and in voting, if it gets that far.
For more complete information, read the article below, which contains links to more information:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/02/house-passes-long-sought-email-privacy-bill




Encrypt what you value. Encrypt it all. And that's the core lesson, is that people only somewhat care about email security. Not a day goes by that I see emails leaking out and ending up doing disastrous things and yet nobody asks me about PKI or anything else really to secure their emails, even when I advertise that I'm willing to help.
I've learned that while people would like their email to be secure, they don't want to actually have to do anything to make it secure. In that regard perhaps we've been our worst enemies in SSL on websites, going to wellsfargo.com automatically switches you to https and then people see the little lock on their address bar and carry on as if nothing is special.
The person who gets that zero-ledge to secure goal first will likely win the game and everyone will see the value and start to migrate. As to how, there are a few competing technologies that do it somewhat well, but as far as I know, nothing yet. Nothing at least as zero-ledge easy as https-automatically.