The IRS may take your emails without obtaining a warrant first

[vienna]

This is rather an interesting item:

http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/10/irs-email-warrants/

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[Red October1984]

*Deletes Email Account*

Well....now I won't have to worry about that will I?

[HundertzehnGustav]

encryption
?

[Stealhead]

If you ever had the impression that your electronic means of communication where private you are either ignorant or dense.Same goes for the telephone especially cells phones.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by HundertzehnGustav

encryption
?

There's always a backdoor for the government to get in.

[les green01]

ill send them a bill 10 cent each email 5 email accounts 3 of them is max out and out of the 10 cents a email they can give subsim half of the money

[HundertzehnGustav]

then let us make that backdoor hard to open, to the point where their effort in money is bigger than the revenue in money they expect to gain for hunting fraudsders down...

effort versus Gain.
and good encryption can easily tip that balance in your favor.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

There's always a backdoor for the government to get in.

Encryption would make that door impossible to find if you have a good encryption method.There are prison gangs in the US that encryption systems that the FBI has a hard time cracking.Those people are using pen and paper though you can encrypt electronically.

Better yet do not talk about how you plan to cheat on your taxes via e-mail.

[soopaman2]

Can they at least delete the FR33 V1aGRA e-mails, and all the Nigerian princes and shipping magnates who wish to endow me with gold bullion after they wade through all the nonsense that my email box holds?

I have not looked through it in 2 weeks, I would appreciate if they cleaned out all the spam for me.

Thanks IRS. Going the way of 1950s Russia, with 2010 technology, scary, Orwellian.

How long before we are screaming at the telescreen with Emmanuel Goldsteins face on it? Not because we hate him, but because we have to...

We are so getting close to that. Drones, gun control, pure repression.

[Feuer Frei!]

A clear violation of the 4th amendment.
The IRS will have you believe otherwise.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Encryption would make that door impossible to find if you have a good encryption method.There are prison gangs in the US that encryption systems that the FBI has a hard time cracking.Those people are using pen and paper though you can encrypt electronically.

Better yet do not talk about how you plan to cheat on your taxes via e-mail.

Not old enough to pay taxes...

Looks like another win for me.

[Cybermat47]

The homosexual lizard men strike again!

[Wolferz]

Why would Ignorant Republican Senators want to read my spam?
I'm poor, so I have no wealth hidden in offshore shell companies, like a recent presidential candidate.

Only the US government would waste ten billion dollars to collect ten cents.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Interesting one. For starters how do they know all your email addresses? How do they know they're targetting a US citizen's email address? I have several US-based webmail addresses, they're more than welcome to waste their time looking at them.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

How do they know they're targetting a US citizen's email address?

They check your ip address and match it against a IP-to-location database.

Oh and if you wanna know how to make your emails almost undetectable, read on:

The trick is to create a pseudonym private account and compose messages and never send them. Yep, save them in draft. The recipient logs in under the same account, read it and reply, without sending anything. The traffic would not be sent across the networks through Google's data centers, making it nigh on impossible for the National Security Agency or any other electronic signals eavesdropping agency (such as Britain's elusive GCHQ) to 'read' the traffic while it is in transit.
If you have a dynamic isp, even better.
Hell, just ask Gen. David Petraeus