Just replying to this bit of your reply to me; the rest made sense On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, carlo von lynX <l...@time.to.get.psyced.org > wrote:
> If this is still jargony to you, hmmm... you are unlikely to understand > the risks you are exposed to by using the Internet from day to day. > These are concepts that anyone in the circumvention business must > be aware of. You can choose to not read the Guardian article and not > try to understand what's going on, but then you should better just > trust that the conclusion is not made up: > No, see that's the thing: *I *get it, but I don't think I'm totally your target audience (I've been using PGP for years, you're talking to people who haven't started yet, right?) You want criticism? There it is. Your writing does not work for the general public. You write in a way that feels condescending and assumes that the reader already has a full grasp of why those things are issues. On the one hand, you're telling people that PGP is too hard/broken, while with the other you're expecting them to already understand it/the threat model. Also, I have no idea what is meant by the "bull run" comment in that sentence. If you want your piece to have any reach beyond the English language, consider tightening up your writing. -- *Note: *I am slowly extricating myself from Gmail. Please change your address books to: jilliancy...@riseup.net or jill...@eff.org. US: +1-857-891-4244 | NL: +31-657086088 site: jilliancyork.com <http://jilliancyork.com/>* | * twitter: @jilliancyork* * "We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality" - *Vaclav Havel* * * * *
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