PGP problems

Trevor Smith pmmail@rpglink.com
Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:56:07 -0300


On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 09:37:28 +0200 (CDT), Winfried Tilanus wrote:

>I have in
>some occasions asked why someone did not use PGP: they understood the
>problem and the solution, but they just did not care...

Sigh. :-(

>I believe people don't realize how much their privacy is at stake here:
>it is much easier to monitor all internet traffic than all telephone
>traffic or all snail-mail traffic. A digitized human voice or a sealed
>envelope are far better forms of encryption than plain ASCII!

Agreed. And telephone conversations don't sit on someone's hard drive
for x months or years after they finish.


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 Trevor Smith          |          trevor@haligonian.com
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