[PLUG] what is the point of PGP-signed emails?
Carla Schroder
carla at bratgrrl.com
Sun Dec 7 10:43:02 UTC 2003
So what's the point, realio and trulio, of using PGP in email? I think
it's a geek affectation. Anyone can generate a key. Anyone can paste a
bunch of stuff in a message that looks like a key. If someone like
David Mandel posted a message here that said "No more PLUG. I'm sick of
it. We're pulling the PLUG hahahahaaa", it wouldn't matter if it were
PGP-signed or not- no one would take such a message at face value. We
would pick up and the phone and go "Yo, David, WTF?"
So, aside from generating endless flame wars over how mail clients
display a PGP sig, I just don't see the point.
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