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The world would be a much better place if we could ban signatures and non pure-text emails. Alas... ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Attacks on encrypted communicxatiopn rising in Europe
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > But so too are the privacy absolutists who believe that law-enforcement > is doing something morally wrong when they try to break Tor's anonymity > in the pursuit of awful people. I think you can say this sentence with the one that try break a Daesh hacker and the awful people being american soldiers. I personally think that's the point, to be in the safe side you have always to assume you are the awful people for someone. It does not matter how real, or absolute the thing is. Try to break is fine, forcing people to use broken products is bad. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
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Paolo Bolzoni wrote: > The world would be a much better place if we could ban signatures and > non pure-text emails. Alas... The Net thrives on incompetence :-( UUCP '%' & '!' once excluded zombies. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix Sys Eng Consultant Munich Reply below, Prefix '> '. Plain text, No .doc, base64, HTML, quoted-printable. http://berklix.eu/brexit/#stolen_votes ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
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> Paolo Bolzoni wrote: >> The world would be a much better place if we could ban signatures and >> non pure-text emails. Alas... The world is a better place for it neither banning, nor trying to ban, such things. First, how do you ban signatures without banning people? Many people work in businesses which mandate signatures. If we attempted to ban signatures we'd be telling people, "unless you have a personal email account, you don't deserve to talk to people." Second, how do you ban signatures? That would be an interesting problem in AI, and would lead to false positives. Again, this would have the effect of barring some people from communicating. Third, define "non pure-text". If you're requiring 7-bit ASCII then you're telling people from non-English-speaking countries that they can't communicate. And once you open it up to Unicode, you've introduced a huge amount of attack surface -- I can't think of a coherent argument that says "we'll support arbitrary character sets including Unicode, but HTML is evil because of the attack surface it presents." Fourth, why is *forbidding a capability* considered a feature? Forbidding the misuse of a capability, sure, I can see that as a feature. But every now and again I try to present math in this mailing list, and I have two choices: (a) ASCII art, which doesn't render correctly on many platforms, or (b) Embed a LaTeX image into an HTML email We shouldn't be angry about capabilities -- we should be angry about people using them inappropriately. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
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(1) and (2) Did you read the word "alas"? Of course it's not possible. Secondly the fact business policy mandates something does not make it a good idea, in this case it does not at all. (3) Study the meaning of the word "Encoding." Plain-text has nothing to do with what characters you can represents. Nowadays UTF-8 is fairly popular for many reasons. (4) "*forbidding a capability* considered a feature" is something you said. I simply said the world would be better, because the disadvantages are more than the advantages. If the format is important for any reason, just write a .pdf or create few pictures and attach them. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
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On 26 Aug 2016, at 15:39, Paolo Bolzoni wrote: > just write a .pdf It's a sad day when pdf is considered preferable to html... ;-) A ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
