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Old 03-20-2012, 08:10 PM
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Some things are possible with encryption, but many are not. Email encryption for example only works if both persons do have it - that means you have to insist on it and probably install encryption software at your friends computers. Oh and then you have to convince them not to use Yahoo Messenger or Skype like all their friends do but something like Jabber with OTR. And then you have to install certpatrol on firefox and use TOR and convince all your favourite websites to ude SSL, which they do not want to do because valid certificates cost money and self signed cause freaky error messages and besides all thet, SSL is buggy and was hacked several times.
Believe me, I am trying to use the internet safely for years and it is a nightmare - most of all because no one else is interested in it, but people instead post the photos from the last student party on facebook and give the facial recognition software all the names of the people visible there. And they allow facebook and google to read their emails and adress books and thus read my emails to them as well. That way facebook knows more about me already than I know. And how do you use GPG for emails that you send to people who only use webmail, which are A LOT nowadays. Even if their webmail solution has such a thing as GPG, the cleartext would end up on their server. OR you have to manually copy each encrypted email text into some GPG application to read it.
The problem is not that I myself cannot use secure ways of communication, but that most people and services I communicate with do not know/want this...
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