On 10 June 2013 10:46, Henry Hertz Hobbit <hhhob...@securemecca.net> wrote:
> 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. > Try this: http://xkcd.com/1181/ It's not about stupidity, it's about incentives. > > HHH > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > >
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