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How is PGP not a solution here? You are (a) using the email system, (b) your messages are privacy, and (c) your mail client will perform spam filtering. If yo
by betterunix 13y ago
How is PGP not a solution here? You are (a) using the email system, (b) your messages are privacy, and (c) your mail client will perform spam filtering. If you need to hide who you are communicating with, there are anonymous remailers, or you can broadcast your encrypted messages over Usenet.
Really, these problems were already solved a long time ago, but people thought it was just paranoid to even suggest that the solutions were necessary.
- junto 13y agoExplain PGP to my old mum. It has to be a seamless replacement, without barriers to entry. PGP is certainly not easy for anyone, and that's the problem. It also depends on the receiver and sender having the same technical knowledge. Again not seamless.
- betterunix 13y ago"PGP is certainly not easy for anyone, and that's the problem" I have managed to explain it to people with no technical background, and they were able to use it within a day. It is really not that complicated. Most people give up on it not because of the difficulty of using it, but because they want to be able to read their email from whatever random computer they happen to find lying around. Smartcards are part of the solution, but you would need browser support (yeah, I am looking at you Mozilla) and the willingness to buy them. The wrong approach is to assume that everyone is completely stupid and absolutely helpless. People in general lack knowledge about computers; they does not mean that they cannot be taught something new.
- mpyne 13y agoFirefox supports smartcards. I actually like it better than IE, though it was difficult to make the initial setup happen.