I actually had to teach reporters to use email encryption. Thunderbird portable app on Ironkey with enigmail plugin. This was prior to Enigmail panty-twisting privacy leak.
It was painful. Not because they were stupid, but because it's still so convoluted. On 1/16/14 9:51 AM, coderman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Mrs. Y. > <[email protected]> wrote: >> ... >> http://www.edge.org/conversation/smart-heuristics-gerd-gigerenzer > > > your caloric heuristic optimization, > is my bug. > (now if only we could patch wetware! ;) > > > Tempest: perhaps we should clarify incentives. Johnny has zero > incentive in the modern social world to use crypto, and high barriers > to any interest that does occur. > > journalists and human rights workers are motivated like never before, > and likely more sophisticated. however they still struggle with > technical tools for strong privacy. > > my challenge was to the cypherpunks list for digital monies; favorable > selection if there ever was! yet still not 100% and some contexts > place severe penalties on even a single, innocent failure. > > > > as for the title and research, it does not imply encryption is useless > and should be abandoned. it does imply that casual, less technical > users (Johnny) need a system which is intuitive, fails safe, and > unambiguously expressive about failures. > > any improvement to usability is useful. we certainly need much > improvement for pervasively employed end-to-end privacy. > > > > best regards, > -- 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].
