My personal observations agrees with Rob Hansen's studies 100%. Even when required to use encryption people hate doing it and their concept is entirely focused on the ciphering with them thinking that people who use encryption are trying to hide something. They don't even begin to understand that signing is also a part of encryption. IOW, there is also an ignorance factor. Nobody but me uses my signatures on the stuff I deliver. It isn't because my keys aren't part of the WOT. It is because for what ever reason they want to complain like mad about Prism but then go to Facebook and broadcast their personal lives to the entire world. Why? I would like to say I don't know why and that it could be used for a doctoral dissertation but I am beginning to suspect the doctoral candidates in Sociology and Psychology will be similarly nuts any more. For those few who use my stuff they don't even use the signatures to verify that things are okay.. Dumb? Certainly. But stupid is in vogue right now and I don't know why. The Mayan Haab (365 days per cycle) and Tz'olkin (260 days per cycle) calendars both go backwards and forwards forever but nobody wants to know that these calendars really didn't come to an end on 21 Decembre 2012 and that was just one of the times that the first days align. It also happens every 52 Haab cycles (years) and 73 Tz'olkin periods. Don't try to sit down and explain it to them either. They go glassy eyed and make sure they don't understand that (365 * 52) = (260 * 73) and make sure they don't understand why even when you show the reduction that is lowest number you can get in the multiplication where they are equal. They want to say that it is completely impossible to understand and they want to believe what ever lies are told on the History II channel and elsewhere. They get away with it because everybody else is doing the same thing. Why? BEING STUPID IS IN FASHION RIGHT NOW!
If they had complained that my keys were not part of the WOT, my keys would have been part of the WOT in a hurry. That was why I added my legal name as a comment. I anticipated somebody would ask me to become part of the WOT. Nobody has asked because less than 1/10 of 1% of people are using encryption except when they don't know that they are using it (443). What is wrong with the GUI provided with GPG4WIN? I really don't want a GUI on Linux since I do most things in a terminal and BASH anyway. My only complaint with GPG4WIN is that checking the signature should come first but that is because that is what I use it for. I verify that my own downloads have not been tampered with. Hey, the web-server isn't under my control. I can no longer send email on the POP email account that goes with that web server any more either. Yahoo's SMTP server stopped accepting my email from Thunderbird just two days ago. Unfortunately, POP still pulls down 100 or so messages from PeskySpammer every day. That does not instill confidence. But I can still mail fine here using OpenPGP on 1and1 with no problems. So it is not my setup which has not changed that is causing the problems. Business mail at Yahoo is either broken or the NSA / FBI retaliated for my comment at WaPo. I pick broken. Why retaliate when even some of them will agree with my comments at WaPo? My snail mail delivered letter to Yahoo will be my last chance at getting it working again. My hope is extremely low. Until stupid falls out of vogue, encryption just isn't going to be used. If the History II channel and my downstairs neighbor with Planet X (Nibiru) are any indication we will need a completely new generation for that to happen. This generation is so stupid with their iPhones and iPads and Galaxy Samsungs that I am beginning to wonder how we got here. It isn't just the young doing it either. Many older people have been similarly afflicted. I think I will watch the programs on the D-Day veterans so I can get out of this time warp factor we are in right now for a while. Those people back then weren't stupid. They cracked the Enigma, the Lorenz, and most of the Japanese codes as well. I should have lived my life back then with my half-sister Susie and helped in the cracking. Now? The emperor has no clothes and almost nobody wants to use encryption - ANY KIND OF ENCRYPTION! Me? My financial data and passwords are enciphered. I don't make any apologies either. There are too many hackers that want to steal that stuff. I strongly avoid using software that isn't signed unless I created it either. The people that aren't doing it? THEY ARE PROUD ABOUT BEING STUPID! The reason Microsoft bundled Windows Defender and have it on by default is because well over 50% of the people weren't using an AV product on Windows. Unfortunately, Windows Defender is removing all blocked entries including even Facebook and bad hosts from the hosts file now. Again, stupid is in fasion even at Microsoft when they attempt to remedy a problem. Windows Defender may have removed the only thing that would keep that problem away from that person's computer. Will the Microsoft programmers understand that? NO! STUPID IS IN VOGUE RIGHT NOW! Mucking around with a new GUI for GnuPG will not change these factors. The new GUI design needs to be driven by what the people want. Right now they don't want encryption. Encryption has become a dirty word in their diseased minds. HHH
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