How can any of us be loyal to a corporate entity? After all, I can't think of any corporation that views me as anything more than a necessary expense... as long as I generate income for the company, everyone is happy. The moment I don't, I become a cost to be cut.
Seems like having loyalty to something like that is akin to worshiping Cthulhu.
As a long time PGP user, I've tried to get friends, family and coworkers to use decent encryption for their email. All the arguments fall on deaf ears... the usual reasons are 'I dont have anything to to hide', 'who would want to read my email anyway', 'its too hard', ad infinitum.
This is a flawed implementation. No SSL from client to yahoo, having to use yahoo's key, etc. However, if it gets joe average to understand the need for encryption its a good thing.
We just have to be there to tell him why he wants something else.
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How can any of us be loyal to a corporate entity? After all, I can't think of any corporation that views me as anything more than a necessary expense... as long as I generate income for the company, everyone is happy. The moment I don't, I become a cost to be cut. Seems like having loyalty to something like that is akin to worshiping Cthulhu.
As a long time PGP user, I've tried to get friends, family and coworkers to use decent encryption for their email. All the arguments fall on deaf ears... the usual reasons are 'I dont have anything to to hide', 'who would want to read my email anyway', 'its too hard', ad infinitum. This is a flawed implementation. No SSL from client to yahoo, having to use yahoo's key, etc. However, if it gets joe average to understand the need for encryption its a good thing. We just have to be there to tell him why he wants something else.
encrypting everything is useful.. but remember anyone can gain access to your machine with a large caliber handgun and easy access to your head.
Still fun enough to give it a look though...