I too run into the same issue when trying to get friends to use encryption. I have not been able to get 1 person to use it save myself. Peoples eyes seem to gloss over and they say "ok, sure, whatever". No one gets it.
I have always said that a big roadblock to large scale adoption by the "non-programmer" masses (of which I am a part) has been the fragmentation of resources needed to get GPG running on a mac. The new GPGTools project is a huge step in the right direction and I am glad to see it happen. A big thank you to those involved. I think a big next step is to combine all the different projects (GPGMail, KeyChain Access, MacGPG1&2, GPG Services, etc...) into 1 entity, a unified app that does not have lots of separate parts as far as the end user is concerned. I only wish I could do more to help out, but I dont program and such.. On Apr 5, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Charlie Ros5e wrote: > > Steve, I've been telling my friends and colleagues about encryption (in > general) and email encryption (in particular) since I was able to lay my > hands on Phil Zimmerman's original PGP back in the 1990s. And I've had it on > my computers all this time ... except for the past three years when an > upgrade to the Mac OS crashed PGP. The PGP company at the time said they'd > have an upgrade ready soon – and that it would cost a lot more than I was > able to pay. Then came GPG and GPGMail, and I became happy again! > > However ... "spreading the word" has been really frustrating! > > Although once in a while someone sees the necessity and wisdom of encryption > right away, they're a rarity. Most people say, "I don't have anything to > hide, so why should I bother with something I don't need anyway?" I've never > learned how to change such people's viewpoint. If anyone on the list has > ideas on this, please send 'em along. > > The other block is the complexity of use. (Not GPGMail, however ... it's a > sweet implementation!) But to ask someone who has interfaced to a computer > only with a GUI to work on a UNIX command line ... as trivial as it is for > GPG ... is an exercise in futility. > > But I keep trying. My German wife smilingly tells me I'm a "Weltverbesserer" > ... someone who's always trying to make the world a better place. I guess > she's right. > >
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