If you choose to have a Web Presence, as I have, you really cannot complain about people knowing a lot about you. After all, we all know that we leave a trail whenever we travel through the web. Having said that, it really doesn't mean that I do want all my mail read by the whole world, or rather, by those poor sods employed to scan my mail. (I know of a few incidences of people going through the bin bags for information.)
If you want to know more about why you might want to encrypt your e-mails and your files, have a look at the following sites:
PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy. To learn more about it, go to http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html. To obtain PGP, go to http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pgp-form.html.
You will need to use my Public Key in order to verify that any PGP-signed message that I send to you is actually from me. You will also need it to PGP-encrypt any message you only want me to read. If you want me to encrypt anything for your eyes only, you will have to give me your PGP public key.
My public key is as follows:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>
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6RsymXf8EBaxvACfVAcnfmKs9oonWhgqYeRwPpJTqtk=
=nb3Z
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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Amended on: 19 October, 2000