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• Och aye the GNU commented on HOWTO encrypt your Gmail
  Thecat@3- The point of key-signing parties isn't to sign keys of people you want to email. The idea is that if PGP users get their keys signed by enough people, eventually everyone's key is signed by multiple people you trust. Google PGP and "web of trust" to find out more....
• zikzak commented on HOWTO encrypt your Gmail
  That's, well, nice to know. But why would I care to encrypt emails of funny cat pictures and the generally inane messages I send during my daily business? I'm so glad you asked that question, Mr. Skeleton! The short answer is: to protect those who depend on encryption to keep them safe from persecution. It's like this: governments can't easily break GPG encryption, but they can very easily tell who's using it. If the only people who use encryption are dissidents, civil liberties activists, hackers, and other people the government doesn't like, simply the fact that they're using encryption is...
• BethanyAnne commented on HOWTO encrypt your Gmail
  On some level, this comment is a minor rant, but the thing that constantly frustrates me about encryption is the terminology. I do information architecture for a living, which means that I interpret between marketing and engineering. The encryption folk are seriously in need of some marketing folk. I know that public key and private key are the accurate terms, but I'd love to see them replaced with "lock" and "key". People could understand that. You distribute your lock anywhere - you want people to have it. They lock an email for you, send it to you, and you unlock...
• tomschlenkhoff commented on HOWTO encrypt your Gmail
  Why not think differently on Gmail security: We need to develop a plugin for e.g. Firefox that works with templates for URLs and provides a simple way to store keys. Now, if you are using Gmail and have that plugin enabled, and have one or more symmetric keys in store and type an email, the body-text and subject of the email gets scrambled before it is submitted to the site. Scrambling could either mean, really messy encryption, where no one would be able to read anything at all - but full-text search would not work either. Or scrambling could mean...
• bethellodge commented on Evolution of the heart emoticon <3
  I searched the meaning of the emoticon. I got my answer (thanks cory). I'm confused about what there is to criticize....