On 09/19/15 21:16, David wrote: > On 9/19/2015 7:31 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> With respect to your grandma-and-grandpa comment: we are not interested >> in aiming Enigmail at people who do not care about email privacy and >> have no interest in it. Why would we? We're not medieval priests >> preaching the Gospel to the heathens, infidels, unchurched and >> unconverted. > > > I see. So instead of a utility that is simple enough for potentially > everyone to use for private emails you are looking for a 'just for us > really paranoid really smart geeks' application.
Did you really misunderstand the previous statement that badly, or are you deliberately trolling (again)? It doesn't matter how easy-to-use you can make a waffle iron, you're never going to sell one to somebody who doesn't want a waffle iron. The principal reason not everybody owns a boat is because not everybody wants a boat. Some people don't have pets simply because they don't want to have pets. I don't own a fishing rod, because I'm not interested in fishing. Likewise, you cannot make somebody who doesn't care about encryption and isn't interested in it use an encryption tool by making it easier to use. Someone who isn't interested in encryption isn't going to use any encryption tool until and unless you can first convince them of why they *should* use it. If you have *that* solved, by all means feel free to explain your solution. In the meantime, for those who actually *are* interested in using email encryption, Enigmail is among the best, simplest to use, and most accessible mail encryption tools out there, and unlike many of the others, it's free. This is not to say that it can't be improved, or that there are not areas where the interface can be made more informative or simpler to understand. But doing so is still not going to attract people who *aren't interested in what it does* in the first place. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications [email protected] [email protected] Landline: 603.293.8485
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