I guess the bigger issue is, that using GPG/PGP adds another thing normal users have to think about and doesn't really have any real impact the user could immediately grasp.
Of course you could argue, "but everyone can read my emails and I don't know if the party I'm writing with, is who they say they are", but I really understand people who say that's no problem for them and especially if you use this among friends, there's no added value, rather more problems that arise, when you use clients that don't support it. Am 05.04.2011 um 19:49 schrieb Chris Rexinger: > 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. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > gpgtools-users mailing list > gpgtools-users@lists.gpgtools.org > FAQ: http://www.gpgtools.org/faq.html > Changes: http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/listinfo/gpgtools-users > Unsubscribe: > http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/options/gpgtools-users/lu...@dressyvagabonds.com?unsub=Unsubscribe&unsubconfirm=1 > > This email sent to: lu...@dressyvagabonds.com
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