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Boy, if you think getting people to use encrypted email is hard, I can only imagine trying to convince reddit users. Why would you even use reddit to send an ac
by flatline 8y ago
Boy, if you think getting people to use encrypted email is hard, I can only imagine trying to convince reddit users. Why would you even use reddit to send an actual, private communique? If you know the person through some other channel, why prefer a pseudonymous platform controlled by a third party, that is notoriously unreliable? If you don’t know them outside of Reddit, I find the odds of wanting or needing truly private communications very small, and a DM could easily be used to establish a more secure connection elsewhere.
- mirimir 8y agoMaybe ROT13 is good enough?
- Fnoord 8y ago> If you know the person through some other channel My assumption is that you don't. A transparent browser addon using JS and redditcensored.com would take care of that. ProtonMail is also browser-based and user-friendly. Meanwhile, ROT13 (or a variation) could be a useful alternative for the time being. Has anyone tested it?
- chatmasta 8y agoYou don’t need to know them outside of Reddit, just outside of the DM. I can easily imagine a situation where members of a subreddit might want to DM each other securely. For example users of a marketplace subreddit might want to DM each other to negotiate transactions. In that case I could imagine the OP providing a GPG public key in a post and asking anyone who sends a DM to send it GPG encrypted with that key. Also, convincing reddit users to use GPG is definitely easier than convincing email users, because it only needs to happen for specific subsets of them, and many already use it (eg in the old /r/DarkNetMarkets).