On Sun, 8 Nov 2015 02:10:19 +0000 Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
Joseph Gentle <me@josephg.com> writes:
Industry grade crypto has existed for years, but things like PGP being simply *inconvenient* has resulted in it having virtually no adoption. The big threat to pervasive surveillance isn't pgp, its companies like apple and whatsapp bringing that technology to the masses.
That's a good point actually. In my enormous to-read pile I've got "Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt", and that's from fifteen years after the original paper on PGP's unusability was published. It's scary to think that companies like Apple have done more to protect us from intrusive government surveillance
LMAO http://readwrite.com/2014/07/23/apple-ios-backdoor-acknowledgement-support-d...
than nearly a quarter century of PGP has, because they've made it usable by the masses.
and the proof for that claim is, where?
Peter.