Hello Si, On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:51:18 +0100 GMT (15/Jun/11, 23:51 PM +0700 GMT), Si wrote:
S> Over the last couple of years I have seen less GnuPGP/PGP signed S> mail in my mailbox. People I know rarely bother nowadays. I still S> use it however. Ironic really, considering it is probably more S> relevant now than it ever has been. There is absolutely no concern for privacy any more. People put their private lives on Facebook for all to see. A friend of mine conducted a job interview and of course researched on the internet about this lady first. She was apparently well qualified for the job, but when he saw that she publicly wrote in her Facebook entry that "sex in the car is the best" he decided to ask her in the job interview why she thought this was appropriate to publish for a manager-to-be. She blushed and had obviously not expected that anybody apart from her 500 best friends (most of who she had probably never met in person) would read this. She didn't get the job. The face recognition that Facebook has installed by default - which can or probably has been installed in taffic cameras - is that part of 1984 that I hadn't believed would be possible during my lifetime. If over 600 million people in the world think that privacy is old hat, why are you surprised that there are fewer users of GPG/PGP? -- Cheers, Thomas. http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 4.2.44 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
