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> E-mail is fundamentally not secure and not private, unless you enhance it with PGP, which requires you to, of course, have something you want private. That's
by jimktrains2 10y ago
> E-mail is fundamentally not secure and not private, unless you enhance it with PGP, which requires you to, of course, have something you want private.
That's not true. A friend and I use GPG just to use GPG. You don't have to want to keep something private, just like you don't need to be doing illegal things to want curtains on your house.
- maxt 10y agoThanks for clarifying. I have to remember this quote: "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged" What I mean is that I can decide to not encrypt and have my emails under public scrutiny, but as I said, most people are not scared enough because it doesn't happen on their watch. It doesn't matter what the content is, or how non-libelous - if it's encrypted with PGP, it's private.