Re: Why everyone uses envelopes but few encrypt emails?

"Tom St Denis" <tomstdenis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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PGP is fairly easy to use, been around for ages and is open source
[just not free]. People don't use it because they're stupid not
because it's hard to use.

No. It's hard to use. EASY to use means click. HARD is click and
pick dropdown. Hence VISTA and no dropdowns.

The computer user of today finds the START button challenging. (I find
it bewildering that you STOP with START, but I digress). Anything
that requires ANY effort on a per-target basis (i.e. i have to put in
new stuffs for secret mail to people if I use PGP (AES,XYZ,LMNOP, pick
one) and some can then get it and some cant? Woe is I. Oh i changed
systems and forgot my password. Now what? Oh it's MY fault i forgot my
key?? How dare you. I will go use outlook now cuz it came with my
puter mr know it all...

Sound familar? Fred Pohl ("The Marching Morons") was right.. he was
just way too optimistic. Ron White says it best "theres no cure for
stupid"

People don't use encryption same reason they dont use manual
transmissions. It requires attaining a skill


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2+2!=5 even for extremely large values of 2
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