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Re:Stop Thinking That Tech Hacks Are the Solution to Our Sur... by throwit1979 on Monday August 12, 2013 @11:22AM (#6199680)
Except they're not. The profusion of even naive encryption amongst the general population is effectively zero, assuming you exclude transparently-used encryption like SSL.

When 50% of the membership of AARP is using GPG and having key signing parties, then we can talk.

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Re:Stop Thinking That Tech Hacks Are the Solution to Our Sur... by nhaehnle on Monday August 12, 2013 @01:05PM (#6200285)
Actually, 10% might be enough, if you believe some of the research on how society-wide changes happen. That doesn't really change the overall conclusion at the moment, but it's nice to stay optimistic...
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