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Re:Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted by pjc50 on Saturday March 31, 2018 @06:23PM (#16725485)
> great way to explain privacy limitations to a non-tech-savvy person is to walk them through using GPG.

Have you ever actually successfully done this? More than once? And they continue to use it?

It's a usability nightmare. https://moxie.org/blog/gpg-and-me/

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Re:Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted by thomastjeffery on Saturday March 31, 2018 @06:39PM (#16725548)
OK. Maybe not GPG specifically.

But keypairs. Everyone should understand keypairs. They are the basis for all of digital security, and they are really not that difficult.

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Re:Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted by leshow on Sunday April 01, 2018 @04:15PM (#16730204)
Symmetric encryption is also popular and ubiquitous. I don't think this can be practically explained to most of the population of non-technical people. Encryption schemes also often use hybrids of symmetric and asymmetric encryption; they are useful for different scenarios.
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