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> Note: I’m deliberately being blunt in this post because literally more than a decade of softspokenness from cryptography experts has done nothing to talk user
by Hackbraten 2y ago
> Note: I’m deliberately being blunt in this post because literally more than a decade of softspokenness from cryptography experts has done nothing to talk users off the PGP cliff. Being direct seems more effective than being tactful.
I hate PGP, too. However, I’ve spent money on five YubiKeys and several months of tinkering to make them somewhat work on Linux and WSL. I use them to sign my commits and Debian packages I build.
If your goal is to convince me to throw *all of this* away and sink another shitload of money into an alternative and re-do months of tinkering to make it actually work, then being deliberately blunt and condescending is not going to help your case.
- bdjsiqoocwk 2y agoIsn't this sunk cost fallacy?
- palata 2y agoIt would be if PGP was not secure. But used properly, it is actually secure. Condescending people saying "it sucks shit, I'm 10x smarter than the author of PGP" usually say that the UX of PGP is hard, which makes it prone to errors. I have security keys and I use PGP. Unless someone can teach me why it's not good enough for me (and "it's too hard to use" doesn't convince me, given that I actually use it fine), I won't spend hours learning how to use the new cool tools of those condescending people, just for the sake of it.
- wirelessloop 2y agook. So, it is not just me that find this article condescending... Now, I believe you article is not totally futile, as it's not. But.... I would definitely drop the condescending to, give example with details as why with comparison. If you did, I did not get there, again, because of the tone.