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10 Aug 2014, 02:33 AM | #1 |
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Email Message Encryption - Yahoo!
This is an interesting article at PC World about Yahoo! planning to implement OpenPGP end-to-end message encryption
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11 Aug 2014, 11:55 PM | #2 |
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This is destined to fail for two reasons.
1. It's Yahoo 2. The majority of people are completely ignorant of the use of encryption and how it works. |
12 Aug 2014, 06:08 AM | #3 |
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I think you are correct about the majority of people not knowing how it works. PGP is a little complicated with the public and private keys and all
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12 Aug 2014, 02:56 PM | #4 |
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13 Aug 2014, 08:15 AM | #5 |
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Oh the doom and the gloom.
I have to agree though. It's a step. It will be interesting to see how this takes off. I don't use the web interface to Yahoo! Mail much, access my accounts via Claws Mail. |