Jonathan Wilkes: > > You can disagree with it, but it certainly is not a logical fallacy.
based on the substance of the editorial it describes, it certainly is. it's "begging the claim." the fact that i have walked novice computer users through installing and using gpg shows that the level of difficulty is debatable. installing an operating system for the first time is time consuming and dificult task for a novice as well. claiming, "it is hard for a novice to installl an operating system and, thus, novices should not install operating systems" is a logical fallacy. in the case of pgp/gpg, it's a dangerous one. the headline is reckless troll bait for the sheer point of grabbing attention. it should be changed. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
