I can only reiterate my thanks and support for those that perform the maintenance and coding of Enigmail. I am just a novice user and everything appears to work seamlessly. I followed the step by step instructions on setting up, and it all worked first time. At that stage I knew very little about encryption and how it actually worked. I still don't know the details of its working but only the process described by one oe two websites. I think it is fantastic, and very simple to use.
Ian On 05/01/15 05:19, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> This is in my opinion not rational as well. Not contributing to a good >> project, because others aren't rational? Seems like a lame excuse for me. > As soon as your opinion of me matters a whit, I’ll let you know. Until then, > regardless of whether you think it’s a lame excuse, it will continue to be my > policy. > >> In a perfect world it would be probably cool, to don't have >> non-intellgence developers on crypto-software, but we don't have much >> skilled contributers, and as long the software gets better in a >> objective and in a measurable (I think it's possible), it's better than >> not contributing. > I will let other people chime in with their thoughts on your opinion of, > “sure, let’s invite intelligence professionals to make code contributions to > GnuPG and Enigmail.” > >> Same argument as above. A rational community should not take irrational >> people seriously. > Then you won’t have a community. Human beings aren’t rational. The quickest > way to have no community is to insist that to be part of the community you > must lack human failings, like irrationality. > >> If I'm reading the "You know spooks, right?" and "What are they like?", >> it's not only the case, that you have a father, who is a judge, but you >> know other people from the intelligence community. > Given the FBI is an intelligence agency, then yes, I’ve hung out with > intelligence types since I was about eleven. (State judges know the local > police and sheriffs and troopers. Federal judges know the federal police — > FBI, Marshals Service, DEA, and more.) > > I understand you don’t think the FBI is an intelligence agency. You’re wrong. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation > >> Additionally I don't like your argumentation. In my opinion you are >> relativizing the status of people from the intelligence community by >> making everybody a spook. Sorry, no. There is a difference, between >> googling a "blind date’s name" and working for the state to achieve >> secret operations and doing things like economic espionage and the >> espionage of the United Nations. > Secret knowledge isn’t required: > > https://www.google.com/#q=OSINT > > Nor is working for the state a prerequisite: > > https://www.google.com/#q=Business%20intelligence > > You seem to have a view of the world which requires that intelligence be > state-sanctioned, clandestine or covert, etc., etc. It’s not. All being in > the intel business means is you’re acquiring information on behalf of > decisionmakers — that’s all. > > In the modern era, we are *all* in the intelligence business… a fact which, I > think, is poorly recognized by the world. > > > > _______________________________________________ > enigmail-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
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