-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/04/2013 01:21 PM, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote: > Hi folks, > > what was to be expected after the big public rush about PRISM and > Tempora: Email encryption comes into the focus. Here an example > with Thunderbird, GnuPG and Enigmail: > > http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/so-verschluesseln-sie-ihre-e-mails-mit-openpgp-a-909316.html > > I expect more newcomers than usual on the list in the next weeks > and months. > > Ludwig >
I imagine there will be a few. What I expect is that the few people who still use e-mail, instead of texting on their cell phones or messaging on Facebook, will talk about how e-mail should be encrypted, but few will do anything about it. Perhaps a few will download gpg and enigmail, or other workable combinations. Most of them will not get it up and working. And after sending a few encrypted messages to this list, will just give up. I have ONE correspondent who used encrypted e-mail with me. At least, he got down to downloading the necessary tools and got them to work. But he no longer seems to use it. And it is now 2013. I forgot when I first got PGP at the suggestion of my nephew who was doing computer science at MIT at the time. I sent a couple of messages to him. I doubt he uses it anymore. I signed keys for two acquaintances of mine, and they signed mine. But all that stuff got lost at some point and I had to make new keys. I think I have no signatures on my keys. People keep talking about security, worry like chickens with heads cut off, but are unwilling to take the trouble to do anything about it. One of my friends does not even keep her virus scanner up to date, and refuses to accept updates for her OS and application software. I know perhaps two computer users who occasionally do backups. I cannot speak for all computer users, but the ones I know use it as an entertainment device and nothing else. If it is not worth protecting with a virus scanner, not worth doing backups, perhaps it does not matter if their e-mails are read or not. See, I can sign this. But I am not rude enough to encrypt it to this list. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:3EDBB65E 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 13:25:01 up 23 days, 15:11, 2 users, load average: 4.25, 4.31, 4.42 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR1bNeAAoJEBZthAoMYQyL58cIAL1zKHwYYaFcRG5Y15LC5U2e MoMB6en708DN4oUsMfulJGfhn2bArEtGWe7XDyszbPvs6Hn1NkwUgkMy63o1V3bp euby/b7j1XrPBbRvikFXWYwQ77rYAuOvH10pHoV9QfyxSiFMMgeAsuctE7OCjsva rLdcKGiP9IocaBij0Ps16BT6V192bhwo+6b71006M4cVhzF1YRsJKduzcXgcEYyv gxMD7mo59ScmoQx8xmiqfGbjQBzma3j4fsfwI0PgG8Kqs7n9xqTnh968JQjy34TU Y09DSIAf0FHPDJwecEBpBwgoLN7BSqrjq+21yKFnS9kIp3yGEhwNMoCuJYp6jjw= =zQDR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
