X-POP3-Rcpt: declan@relay.pathfinder.com Subject: Re: PGP, Inc.--What were they thinking? Date: Wed, 22 Oct 97 20:38:14 -0400 x-sender: Jamie-McCarthy.org@mm.mailbank.com From: Jamie McCarthy <jamie@mccarthy.org> To: <fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu> cc: "Jason Bobier" <jason@pgp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu X-Loop: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu X-FC-URL: Fight-Censorship is at http://www.eff.org/~declan/fc/ X-FC-URL: To join send "subscribe" to fight-censorship-request@vorlon.mit.edu
A friend of mine by the name of Jason Bobier <jason@pgp.com> happens to work at PGP, Inc. I'll preface his comments by pointing out that I'm sure he doesn't speak for the company in any way.
Unfortunately these people just don't get it. Corporations refused to buy 5.0 because it did not have any way for the corps to get at email encrypted to their employees. There are some very legitimate uses of this, such as when an employee dies and someone else has to take over for them.
Without corps buying the product, there is no PGP, Inc., and thus no dedication of resources to the production of PGP. This leads us back to the floundering state of development that PGP was in before 5.0.
They also don't seem to realize that you always have the ability to remove the MRK from your list of recipients.
Sometimes I really feel like screaming at these people. _All_ of the developers at PGP are personal privacy zealots and no one likes the idea of the MRK. That is why we refuse to make them required. It is also why there still are freeware and personal versions of the product. I wish they would just realize that we aren't some evil group of people that are solely plotting how to make the most money off of this. Most everyone at PGP has internalized personal privacy as a cause (actually most had it before they joined PGP).
*sigh* OK, enough ranting. Feel free to quote various parts of this if you feel like responding to the list.
Jason
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