On 06/09/2011 02:48 PM, Doug wrote: >> I make sure to use it when my wife sends me email to my work email >> address. My employer doesn't need to be reading my personal email >> (there are laws against employers reading personal mail, but why trust >> people to abide by the law when you don't have to?). I also >> opportunistically use it whenever I can with other people, not out of >> need but more to establish the habit (like wearing a seat-belt). > > No way I could get my wife to use new fangled technology :-) I am having > enough
Don't get me wrong, I had to set everything up w/ thunderbird (get enigmail extention, install gpg binaries, set up per-recipient rules so that when she writes email to me it defaults to signed+encrypted). All she had to do is know her passphrase, and everything else happens automatically. >> Although I have to say, I've been impressed lately by my insurance agent >> and my mortgage broker in that they've graduated to sending me things in >> encrypted zip files (when what they're sending includes sensitive >> personal data of mine), and they don't balk at all when I send them >> encrypted zips. They're inching closer to the right solution... > > This makes some sense to me: lawyers, guns and money people should be > using encryption. How do you get the key from them? I doubt they > attend the BLU meeting :-) Oh, it's not /that/ secure. Generally they will send me the password via a separate email, or if they are really savvy, through a secondary channel (like a phone call). Matt _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
