Ah, I see you probably meant BULLRUN. Guess it just wasn't a well-executed pun.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Jillian C. York <jilliancy...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Just replying to this bit of your reply to me; the rest made sense > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, carlo von lynX < > l...@time.to.get.psyced.org> wrote: > >> If this is still jargony to you, hmmm... you are unlikely to understand >> the risks you are exposed to by using the Internet from day to day. >> These are concepts that anyone in the circumvention business must >> be aware of. You can choose to not read the Guardian article and not >> try to understand what's going on, but then you should better just >> trust that the conclusion is not made up: >> > > No, see that's the thing: *I *get it, but I don't think I'm totally your > target audience (I've been using PGP for years, you're talking to people > who haven't started yet, right?) > > You want criticism? There it is. Your writing does not work for the > general public. You write in a way that feels condescending and assumes > that the reader already has a full grasp of why those things are issues. > On the one hand, you're telling people that PGP is too hard/broken, while > with the other you're expecting them to already understand it/the threat > model. > > Also, I have no idea what is meant by the "bull run" comment in that > sentence. If you want your piece to have any reach beyond the English > language, consider tightening up your writing. > > > > > -- > *Note: *I am slowly extricating myself from Gmail. Please change your > address books to: jilliancy...@riseup.net or jill...@eff.org. > > US: +1-857-891-4244 | NL: +31-657086088 > site: jilliancyork.com <http://jilliancyork.com/>* | * > twitter: @jilliancyork* * > > "We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the > seemingly impossible to become a reality" - *Vaclav Havel* > * > * > * > * > -- *Note: *I am slowly extricating myself from Gmail. Please change your address books to: jilliancy...@riseup.net or jill...@eff.org. US: +1-857-891-4244 | NL: +31-657086088 site: jilliancyork.com <http://jilliancyork.com/>* | * twitter: @jilliancyork* * "We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality" - *Vaclav Havel*
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