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Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions?

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Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> wrote:

> Kees Theunissen wrote:
>  
> > A user using email in a hostile environment like the internet
> > might want to encrypt her messages in order to keep confidential
> > contents confidential. 
> 
> You mean like if terrorists want to send e-mail to each other?

What's the implication? That privacy is criminal? 

Encryption: It's not just for fascists anymore!

> > And might want to sign messages like invoices, offers, contracts
> > and other legal stuff in order to proof they were the sender and
> > to ensure the integrity of the message.
> 
> I have been using email for about 24 years now, 17 of which have been
> part of a small bio-tech company doing business with universities,
> medical schools, pharmaceutical and medical device companies in US /
> Canada / Europe / Japan / Australia (and now China) and medical
> scientists in several branches of the US military.  Some of our email
> transactions included patent law and strategy involved with patent
> licensing.
> 
> Not once have I / we ever received an email with a PGP signature, or
> were asked to obtain and use PGP signing as a pre-condition of engaging
> in email communication.

Sounds like you're one of the many incompetent, irresponsible shitheads
whose laptops get stolen, resulting in millions of personal records being
exposed. These stories happen all too often, and they're just the ones we
read about in the newspaper. Email by default goes around mostly unencrypted
and it is archived many times along the way. 

If you really believe that is good enough you will change your mind when one
of your emails or stupid posts comes back to haunt you. Hint: your fake
email address doesn't help.

> So I continue to ask who, beyond those with a fettish for IT technology,
> has a real-world need for PGP encryption or signing as part of email
> communication?

Anybody who wants to keep his communications private, for whatever
reason. You don't have to like it, motherfucker. It happens.

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PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Anonymous <noreply@breaka.net> - 2012-10-09 03:55 -0600
  Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201210.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-10-09 17:47 +0200
    Re: Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201210.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-10-14 05:19 +0200
      Re: Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2012-10-15 13:29 +0000
    Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-10-29 22:28 +0000
      Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201210.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-10-31 03:06 +0100
  Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Andreas Mattheiss <please.post@publicly.invalid> - 2012-10-11 22:11 +0200
  Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> - 2012-10-12 19:24 -0400
    Re: Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-10-13 15:55 +0200
      Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> - 2012-10-13 13:00 -0400
        Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Kees Theunissen <theuniss@rijnh.nl> - 2012-10-15 17:49 +0200
          Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> - 2012-10-15 16:43 -0400
            Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? "Thor Kottelin" <thor@anta.net> - 2012-10-16 01:19 +0300
              Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> - 2012-10-15 19:35 -0400
                Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? "Thor Kottelin" <thor@anta.net> - 2012-10-16 03:39 +0300
                Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@michna.com> - 2012-10-16 13:35 +0200
                Re: Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Andreas Mattheiss <please.post@publicly.invalid> - 2012-10-20 19:01 +0200
                Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-10-29 22:25 +0000
                Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2012-10-31 08:30 +0000
                Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-10-31 17:25 +0000
                Re: Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Anonymous <noreply@breaka.net> - 2012-11-01 05:25 -0600
                Re: Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2012-11-01 14:05 +0000
                Re: Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Anonymous <noreply@breaka.net> - 2012-10-25 13:00 -0600
            Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201210.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-10-16 04:16 +0200
              Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> - 2012-10-15 23:08 -0400
            Re: Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Anonymous <noreply@breaka.net> - 2012-10-23 10:39 -0600
            Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Anonymous <anonymous@hoi-polloi.org> - 2012-10-30 23:03 +0000
        Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2012-11-02 07:59 -0500
    Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2012-10-20 19:53 +0000
      Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> - 2012-10-20 16:43 -0400
    Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201210.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-10-21 09:30 +0200
      Re: PGP tools for dumb users -- suggestions? Mail Man <Mail@Man.com> - 2012-10-21 08:49 -0400

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