Krikey! The (former) Director of the CIA doesn't encrypt his email!! WTF???

Actually, I am not too terribly shocked. Few people seem to care that their email isn't private.

Welcome to the Facebook generation, where each person's life is like a reality TV show!

I thought I might write a post about whether Petraeus might still be the Director of the CIA had he the sense to encrypt his email--after all, he's supposed to be running an Intelligence organization which must use encryption in its own communications. But, someone else beat me to it: What Petraeus Did Wrong- No Encryption. This excellent article discusses secure communication online beyond encryption, and makes the point that, even with encryption, there would have been an electronic trail indicating contact between the respective parties. Still--the FBI might not have so easily determined that an "inappropriate" relationship had taken place if they could not have read the contents of those emails.

No, aside from Petraeus's penis short-circuiting his thought process (happens to me too, bro!), it seems this thing blew up thanks to Paula Broadwell stopping short of putting on an adult diaper and driving to Tampa with a 2-pound drilling hammer, black gloves, rubber tubing, plastic garbage bags. Broadwell (allegedly) sent scary stalker emails instead.

A word to the wise--and NOT just to folks trying to get away with a little something an the side: encrypt your email--GnuPG is free and available for most computer operating systems, including Windows!