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What real users think [was: Re: pgp signing in van]

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 09 September 2013 20:09 UTC

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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Subject: What real users think [was: Re: pgp signing in van]
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On 10/09/2013 01:58, Ted Lemon wrote:
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> Seriously, this perfectly illustrates the reason why PGP hasn't seen widespread deployment: it doesn't address a use case that anybody understands or cares about, 

True story: Last Saturday evening I was sitting waiting for a piano
recital to start, when I overheard the person sitting behind me (who
I happen to know is a retired chemistry professor) say to his
companion "Email is funny, you know - I've just discovered that when
you forward or reply to a message, you can just change the other
person's text by typing over it! You'd have thought they would
make that impossible."

Yes, they should have made that impossible.

   Brian

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