On Sun, 8 Nov 2015 02:10:19 +0000 Peter Gutmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Joseph Gentle <[email protected]> writes: > > >Industry grade crypto has existed for years, but things like PGP > >being simply *inconvenient* has resulted in it having virtually no > >adoption. The big threat to pervasive surveillance isn't pgp, its > >companies like apple and whatsapp bringing that technology to the > >masses. > > That's a good point actually. In my enormous to-read pile I've got > "Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt", and that's from fifteen years after > the original paper on PGP's unusability was published. It's scary to > think that companies like Apple have done more to protect us from > intrusive government surveillance LMAO http://readwrite.com/2014/07/23/apple-ios-backdoor-acknowledgement-support-document > than nearly a quarter century of > PGP has, because they've made it usable by the masses. > and the proof for that claim is, where? > Peter.
