Subj : Re: Anyone using PGP/GPG in here?
To : Lizard King
From : Avon
Date : Wed Nov 07 2018 09:25 pm
On 11/05/18, Lizard King pondered and said...
LK> I very much hope you are right, but I am still hearing various government
LK> agencies griping about the fact that terrorists can encrypt their email
LK> and there's no way for anyone to read it. That is true, as far as it
LK> goes, but to my knowledge terrorists aren't using strong crypto. Last I
I hope that backdoors and other ways to circumvent crypto is not developed by
those that make the crypto tools for government agencies. I think broken
crypto is worse. Crypto is used in a wide variety of ways by people whose
only hope at getting free speech out of a repressive country is to encrypt it.
LK> heard they were logging into gmail, writing emails, quitting out before
LK> sending, and then a second person would go in and view the saved draft.
LK> No email sent.
yeah but I'd suggest not that secure as there's still the session with gmail
that could be intercepted I guess?
LK> for them to stand. I have a feeling that somewhere down the line we'll
LK> hear people arguing that crypto is fine for banking and stuff like that,
LK> but only terrorists would want to encrypt their personal correspondence.
I think that's already well underway ;(
LK> Let me put it another way: 20 years ago, would you have believed that
LK> you'd have to risk being groped by a government employee to get on an
LK> airplane? Somehow we accept this as normal.
I know. Nutty huh. It comes down to what is seen as 'normal'
