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Every problem in this article is solved by things people simply don't know about or don't want to use (PGP etc). Hopefully this may mark the start of a slow tur

• yolesaber 10y ago
  The worst part is the article didn't even attempt to bring that sort of material up or evangelize encryption or other security techniques. It's just more FUD from the Times
  • hood_syntax 10y ago
    Very true. They present the problem and say "doesn't that suck", leaving it at that.
• dredmorbius 10y ago
  Yes, PGP is around. Has been for decades. 1. It's not supported by default on any major email application. 2. It plays very poorly with the dominant email platform of the day: Webmail. 3. Inputting passwords / passphrases on mobile devices is beyond cumbersome. 4. There's a chicken-egg problem: people won't use it because others aren't using it. 5. There remain problems with systems that break PGP -- either encrypted or signed messages. 6. PGP doesn't address the metadata problem -- you can still see who's emailling whom, when, and message subjects. Email has some very big problems. (I've been using PGP/GPG for two decades myself.)