OK, Assange is going way off the deep end now...

[Blue_Tires]

Want to thwart govt spies? Use snail mail, Assange says

https://www.rt.com/news/319616-assange-snail-mail-spies/

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Maybe he just reads Slate.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/data_mine_1/2013/06/nsa_surveillance_why_the_post_office_doesn_t_spy_on_your_mail_the_way_nsa.html

[Blue_Tires]

3. And maybe he doesn't know different governments have different policies about reading mail

Not everything is about the U.S. and the big, bad NSA....

[Chan790]

4. Yes, as someone pointed out in comments...

the British Royal Mail was created in its day specifically because a national mail service would make it easier to read and intercept messages and thwart espionage.

Mail is a safer medium than electronic but unencrypted messages should never be sent. I think book-code works best. Unless the interceptor know what book you're using, the messages are undecryptable.

[BlueJazz]

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[icymist]

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[BlueJazz]

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[Recursion]

5. The post office has sent metadata on physical mail to DC since WWI

Every single letter mailed in the US has the to and return address photographed and sent in to the FBI, for almost 100 years now.

[OnyxCollie]

6. Not gonna work.

The Return of Black Bag Searches? Oregon Attorney on Why He Feels Federal Agents Broke into His Home and Office to Conduct Clandestine Searches
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/3/23/the_return_of_black_bag_searches

SEN. PATRICK LEAHY: Well, then, let me ask you this: under your interpretation of this, can you go in and do mail searches? Can you go into emails? Can you open mail? Can you do black bag jobs? And under the idea that you don’t have much time to go through what you describe as a cumbersome procedure, what most people think is a pretty easy procedure, to get a FISA warrant, can you go and do that, of Americans?

ALBERTO GONZALES: Sir, I’ve tried to outline for you and the committee what the President has authorized, and that is all that he has authorized.

SEN. PATRICK LEAHY: Did it authorize the opening of first-class mail of U.S. citizens? Just — that, you can answer yes or no.

ALBERTO GONZALES: There is all kinds of wild speculation about what the —

SEN. PATRICK LEAHY: Did it authorize it?

SEN. ARLEN SPECTER: Well, let him finish.

ALBERTO GONZALES: There is all kinds of wild speculation out there about what the President has authorized and what we’re actually doing. And I’m not going to get into a discussion, Senator, about —- about hypothetical -—

SEN. PATRICK LEAHY: Mr. Attorney General, you’re not answering my question. I’m not asking you what the President authorized. Does this law — you’re the chief law enforcement officer of the country. Does this law authorize the opening of first-class mail of U.S. citizens? Yes or no, under your interpretation?

ALBERTO GONZALES: Senator, I think that — again, that is not what is going on here. We’re only focused on communications — international communications, where one part of the communication is al-Qaeda. That’s what this program is all about.

SEN. PATRICK LEAHY: You haven’t answered my question.

[newfie11]

8. That pretty much answers the question

Yes your mail can be opened.