On 3/10/2011 4:57 AM, Hauke Laging wrote: > A little practical advantage: If gpg had such a feature then the > documentation may mention everything that is needed additionally > (depending on the targetet opponent: spammers, facebook-alikes, > secret police) or useful.
Someone would have to be crazy to write this. The product liability lawsuits alone would be daunting. Remember that a jury trial is often not so much about the law as it is about blame: if something bad happens the jury wants to be able to point at someone and say, "that person is responsible." If I were to write this, it wouldn't matter how big of a disclaimer I put on the cover page: I would live in fear of someone hauling me into court to say, "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I followed his instructions and I got to spend six weeks discovering what my own liver tasted like. I blame him for the fact I was captured and tortured by the secret police." This also doesn't get into the problem of there being so astonishingly few people on the list -- quite possibly *zero* people on the list -- who are competent to write such a thing. A good rule of thumb in crypto is to never trust ciphers designed by people who haven't first earned their bones by breaking them. The same applies to countersurveillance and tradecraft: don't take advice from people who haven't first proven their abilities at finding people who really, really don't want to be found. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
