Agreed, Security is all about trust. If you install pgp in debian you are trusting package maintainers, package server administrators, whoever most recently patched pgp code, the debian OS, the hardware that your computer is running and the other applications running on your OS.
Most people don't want to take the time to learn how to use a complicated system like pgp (and say what you will but PGP is a huge pain for most people to use on a daily basis). Most people would very much like to trust a third party to encrypt on their behalf. The problem is that most of those third parties are not actually very reliable when it comes down to it. Cooper Quintin Technology Director radicalDESIGNS 1201 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Oakland, CA PGP Key ID: 75FB 9347 FA4B 22A0 5068 080B D0EA 7B6F F0AF E2CA On 06/18/2013 02:14 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote: > Wasabee <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > why does everyone want to trust yet another third party to encrypt > data on their behalf :)? > > > We're all relying on someone else's code to some extent, which is why > I fully support approaching groups of knowledgeable people for their > input. :D > > ~Griffin > > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
