-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I fear I must agree. I use it mainly when my wife is at work so prying eyes will not know our business. But I find few others who are interested enough to do the work to learn how to use it.
Bryant On 7/4/2013 12:39 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > enigmail-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQGcBAEBAgAGBQJR1dgyAAoJEBnBnYUcC5XlRNwL/0RiQg47FgKPCk47TlnOgLqA zFqG606y9auT/RfpsbVpqoaZoWn48P50R0nf//KqZSP/gydw+UwZOIggqQfaH33A G0wCOLadMaq2j9ltdUsEn4bF3BjWFtc+nYSTNDxwoKu0GO8aKCaoNaw/kpv5GTrf aevrqSKTA/C/j/hlQh9iwI+Jlxt6/RFT3UM3Y6oF/YQVVnemcHvuJvRxF3aBzXnC oYAH5AJdVzx/U0PUJ/bMElUsi345urYNL7W2b2oMQJcYLbiZQvaBOBHysBRv5o4N gq/ryQk+oogTacItK9kscbRta2jraUhpDptpRV74YlUQ51Um1afijB6t1Ld19c7/ I5/87Fm7AfWumb7htp+w3vKM0g/bMsPrCtwliG9ov34GYhCf7Z8RNL0t0dNrsdrp 0KGiBtO5M/NmLfx8WEM29YW0cgQ944CmlqBPo7V1lYYJgA7iX9UgXWd13X/nJXcj 589pzhjIdktabhgdr5FyvPjkizUBVJtUsmrmGsaBnQ== =ykbz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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