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Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed

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On 09/23/2018 03:45 PM, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
> Hackers target real estate deals, with devastating impact
> 
> <https://www.yahoo.com/news/hackers-target-real-estate-deals-devastating-impact-015558592.html>
>
>  Here is a very simple PGP client that will automatically set itself
> up and is simple to use.  You should insist a company you are dealing
> with uses PGP.  I refused to buy precious metals once from a company
> because they wouldn't communicate with me using PGP.  They were
> foolishly fearful that the IRS would think they were doing something
> illegal.  So they opened their customers to being revealed and
> endangered.
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gentlegpg/
> 
My attorney sends e-mail in clear text, so it does not matter if I have
PGP or not. And she is in a small firm: one attorney, one paralegal, one
secretary. No IT people at all.

For her to use PGP, she would have to hire a consultant to  install PGP
and enigmail and Thunderbird, and have to learn it. And now she uses a
web browser on Windows for e-mail purposes.

Furthermore, she would need to get all her clients to do the  same.  Out
 of the  question.

And that ignores distributing her public key safely to her clients, and
perhaps getting their public keys back to her safely as well.

Fortunately, I live only about a mile from  my attorney and she has a
large parking lot, so anything sensitive, I just drive there. Were we
needing encrypted e-mail, I could just bring a thumb drive with my
public key on it to her, or even type out my entire fingerprint and get
hers. But could she get all her clients to do this? I doubt it.


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Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201809.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2018-09-23 19:45 +0000
  Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-23 22:03 -0400
    Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-24 10:27 +0000
    Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed anon <noreply@mixnym.net> - 2018-09-24 07:48 -0500
      Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-24 13:18 -0400
        Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed anon <noreply@mixnym.net> - 2018-09-25 08:16 -0500
          Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-25 10:26 -0400
            Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-09-25 17:17 +0200
              Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:16 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:24 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:47 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:56 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-26 22:20 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 00:43 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-27 11:21 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 11:52 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-27 12:10 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 12:15 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-27 14:31 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-09-27 20:07 +0000
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 16:39 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-28 09:45 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-28 09:52 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-28 14:22 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-28 14:26 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-28 15:43 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-28 15:54 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-27 06:52 +0100
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-27 11:22 -0400
  Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2018-09-25 11:35 -0400
    Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2018-09-25 14:35 -0600
      Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:50 -0400
    Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:25 -0400

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