[Users] secure email providers
John B
yonaton at riseup.net
Sat Apr 2 12:37:36 UTC 2022
I honestly don't understand how anyone can think using PGP on a linux system
or even Winblows is 'difficult'.
I have never been accused of being the intelligent one in my family. Did lower
than average in school, in trouble all the time, etc. Yet once I found out
there was an OS *other* than Winblows and started to use Linux, I found PGP
right away and started to use it. This all began back in 2000, after I'd been
using Winblows since 3.1 since ~1997.
There isn't much to learn and the gui for it is simple to use. In my
experience, it's not that the program is hard to use, it's that people are
simply getting lazier and lazier and don't *want* to have to 'think'...not even
a little bit. I saw it constantly back in the late 90's and early 2000's when
I was repairing Winblows for people in the county I live in. The amount of
laziness I would find in the people and the simplicity of the problems they
created and could have fixed in less than 5 minutes on their own, showed me
just exactly that I was and am correct.
Other than that, Claws-mail makes it so simple even my 82 year old mom
(at the time) who could barely turn on her computer, could use it when she
used e-mail (though I *did* have to explain to her and get her to realize
that it really *is* and *was* important to understand that her missives
weren't safe unless she encrypted them).
I mean, good grief...GPG for Winblows is simplicity for even dolts like me!
Meh, I guess I've said my 38¢, sorry it was so much more than 2¢, heh heh.
JB
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