Re:I'm giving up on PGP
by loup-vaillant on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @05:46PM
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> The idea that people care about a web of trust in general is bad.
Well, the very question is kind of a type error: people don't know what a computer is in the first place. 1 in 4 can't use computer in any capacity, and 90% of the rest have zero knowledge of the underlying principles. They don't even know if they would care about a web of trust.
In the mean time, the powers that be are building us a network of universal spying. Oh well.
IMO, the idea, the model, and implementation are flawed.
The idea that people care about a web of trust in general is bad. The model itself relies on the assumption that it's a popular piece of software that is used in the way it's intended. PGP itself is popular, but only for the fact that viable alternatives are thin. The software implementation is confusing to technical end users, and third party front ends are just as bad.