> That said, it's necessary to keep in mind what Enigmail's target > audience is, and that is people who want a simple, usable tool to > encrypt or authenticate their email.
I think it should also be said: Enigmail is not an advocacy organization. We don't push anyone to encrypt their email. We don't travel around the country giving speeches about the importance of email encryption. There are groups that do this: the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Stanford Cybersecurity Center, and more. These groups do excellent work. We're happy they exist. They've got the media contacts, they know how to reach out and evangelize... they do great work for the cause of email privacy. But what all of these groups have in common is: they're lousy at building tools. We're pretty good at building tools, but our rolodex is pretty thin. So we're happy to let these groups evangelize, and we're going to build a great tool for the newly-converted. But we're not interested in doing evangelization ourselves: that's not what we do. Sure, we'll speak at conferences and talk to journalists -- but that's about talking to interested parties, not trying to persuade the uninterested. So when I say we're not interested in converting grandma and grandpa, who currently don't care about email crypto? Absolutely true. We're not. But we wish the EFF, the FSF, EPIC, SCC, and other groups all the luck in the world in convincing grandma and grandpa to start caring. When they do, we'll be here for them. :)
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