> ----- Message from "M.R." <makro...@gmail.com> on Thu, 20 Oct 2011
> 15:34:29 +0000 -----
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> gnupg-users@gnupg.org
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> Subject:
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> Re: The problem is "motivational"
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> On 20/10/11 12:30, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
. . .
. . .
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> > Because we, who care about privacy, are affected by those who
> don't care.
>
> I propose this way of thinking is counterproductive.
And what of the other responses which stated other specific needs to make
encryption universal? I especially can appreciate Mark Wood's comment on
"The telephone quandary." My use of encrypted e-mail is severely limited
because so many of those with whom I communicate wouldn't have a clue how
to acquire, install, configure, or use encryption.
> It will not
> succeed in any meaningful way, because "encryption by default"
> is a completely unrealistic goal in today's environment of
> multiple mail end-user platforms, plethora of client applications,
> uncooperative mail service operators and hostile universal surveillance
> culture, and, last but not least, by the legions of users who resent
> it because they "have nothing to hide". Any "solution" which marshals
> mail service operators and ISP's into the trust chain is however
> recklessly endangering those that might "have something to hide",
> by giving them false sense of security.
>
The proposal doesn't preclude those that "might have something to hide"
from seeking other sources of encryption keys. It merely allows far wider
use of encryption in general.
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