Fundamentally, I agree. I have my entire team set up with PGP keys. However, there's a huge training burden that needs to be overcome. People don't understand

Fundamentally, I agree. I have my entire team set up with PGP keys. However, there's a huge training burden that needs to be overcome. People don't understand what it is, how it works, how to manage keys, what they can do securely or not, etc. People complain about the tools, which I agree are insufficient right now for most people's general use—even with e.g. the very nice https://gpgtools.org https://gpgtools.org —but I'm not convinced that's the primary hurdle. Awareness of the technology is very low. I think it should be taught in public schools, and not as a specialized course but as part of general "life skills". I would love it if someone with a huge, visible platform like Google or Apple would push PGP integration into their tools for general use. Like, why isn't my PGP pubkey a normal field in my G+ profile? Or Facebook? There are obvious answers there, of course, beyond the obscurity of the technology: if people start PGP-encrypting everything, those content platforms would lose value. It would be like visiting Google's house to have a private conversation with a friend that Google couldn't hear. You can do it, but what do they get out of it anymore? I'm not sure what the solutions are here, but I hope someone solves them.