Poll: Do you encrypt your email?

Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by amirmc on Sunday July 14, 2013 @07:39PM (#6042745)

You may not think that your email's that important but your unwillingness to care means you've inadvertently extended that judgement to everyone else who may want to correspond with you. This effect worries me the most about our modern, connected world.

NB: Just to be absolutely clear, I'm not picking on you specifically (and I suspect there are many people who hold the same opinion as you). I'm just trying to point out what I see as a problem with the "my email isn't important" argument.

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Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by stephengillie on Sunday July 14, 2013 @07:45PM (#6042771)

http://xkcd.com/1181/

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Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by ajkjk on Sunday July 14, 2013 @07:52PM (#6042792)

I don't really see email as any more secure than snail mail right now (which can be taken from your mailbox and read, albeit with stiff legal threats if anyone catches you). There wasn't an appropriate poll option for "I don't care because I don't think email can be both effective and secure in the near future and I prefer effective".

People who need encrypted email will figure out how to do it and I think that's enough for now. I don't think lamenting how slow PGP adoption is makes sense, though - it will never, in its current form, be mainstream.

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