On 2015-02-09 Mon 13:19 PM |, Gilles Chehade wrote: > > My grandma, like a lot of non-technical people, just wants to send mail, > she doesn't want to be trained, she wants to write a message and press a > button and the message being sent. If it doesn't work that way, she will > just not use mail. >
I could say my teenage children all want the keys to my cars, without wanting to learn how to drive, or be old enough to take a test. > She's like most internet users, she doesn't care or want to care how the > message will be emitted, if you provide two ways and a simpler one, then > she will pick up the simpler one. My girlfriends want to go to sea with me on a warship and fire torpedos. They don't care how the weapon is emitted, they just want a way to make a big splash, without doing the dicipline of military training. Meh.... > > If the user doesn't use PGP, with what public key do you encrypt his > message ? or do you simply not write to him anymore ? > For some things (legal, financial, medical), I've had to arrange offline communications, because others wouldn't encrypt *some* emails. Consider these increasingly more common situations: Canadian Dads on the Run (to Nice, France): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn_GzdkWpg0&feature=related Men must make a DNA Getaway: http://youtu.be/6Acp23ERkks?list=RDmpI3y4Nqt4Y&feature=related http://youtu.be/-V9BtDpYg4A?list=PLHLREeMe4S0OmV_BYAfWNWi0qQzu2FWzK > > Yes, PGP offers end-to-end and it's great. > Most people don't use it. > Yep. Usually, (social) mail does not need to be encrypted. Othertimes, some (e.g banking, business) emails need to encrypted throughout their entire route & life. One hop on one machine isn't enough in these situations. -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected]
