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I was born 20 years ago...
It would have been hilarious if you'd fixed this bug... :-)
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Autocrypt is the middle ground Thunderbird should have implemented (and which Enigmail used to offer). Email is here to stay, so encryption by default won't happen as long as the PGP standard is used as designed (trust levels and all). Autocrypt improves all that horrible UX, including secure key transfer or rotation, where you can keep doing your own key management if you wish, but you have to do nothing more than e…
From what I've read, PGP for Thunderbird is just a first step. My guess is that they chose the easiest/quickest path for first implementation, but I think we'll see more facilitation of encrypted email in TBird in time. This makes sense to me. I've been trying to get friends, family and colleagues to encrypt email (hell, even signing would be a step!) for about 3 decades, now, and have basically thrown in the towel.…
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You can't just "Nope" this issue. You need to come up with some sort of rational argument. The PGP people have been dealing with the data at rest issue since forever. It is a bit presumptuous to just write off all that acquired wisdom without reason.
I have come up with a rational argument, you just refuse to address it at all. Your argument boils down to 'the PGP people are smarter than everyone else' which I think isn't really even a rational argument.
How do you do a downgrade attack on, say, an encrypted backup?
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When we nitpick, "country" = geographic unit, "state" = political unit. The United States is itself a state, albeit a federation of smaller states.
This is a nice distinction, actually. It means we can think about "stateless countries" (like Western Sahara, perhaps), and "countryless states" (like the Sovereign Military Order of Malta).
And conversely, there are states spanning (parts of) more than one country: The UK with North Ireland and many others (perhaps England, Scotland and Wales if you consider them separate countries).
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I have come up with a rational argument, you just refuse to address it at all. Your argument boils down to 'the PGP people are smarter than everyone else' which I think isn't really even a rational argument.
There is no reason to appeal to authority here when a simple koan can provide enlightenment. I will repeat it one more time: How do you do a downgrade attack on, say, an encrypted backup?
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Key management is a burden in every cryptosystem. I'm using KeePass and can recommend it, it works well.
Would you know if it failed?
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There is no reason to appeal to authority here when a simple koan can provide enlightenment. I will repeat it one more time: How do you do a downgrade attack on, say, an encrypted backup?
No. We've got a threadful of arguments here in which you simply refuse to engage. You don't get to superciliously demand Socratic satisfaction, wave around your list of logical fallacies and mumble oracularly about koans and enlightenment. You have to make an argument otherwise what you're doing is simply rude preening. It's fine if you have nothing to say. You don't get to (at least, publicly) pretend you've actuall…
That's it. That's the actual arguments to this point. Then you just said nope.
You are not claiming that logic and facts are irrelevant here, are you?
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I have a different perspective. I think that the scope of the 2nd amendment has narrowed over the years. In 1776, private citizens owned every kind and sort of weapon used by the military. Ordinary people owned cannons, were instructed to put cannons on their private ships to defend against pirates, and owned the same sorts of muskets used by the army. The modern equivalent would be buying tanks at Walmart for cash a…
> By the way, the archaic meaning of "regulated" means "properly disciplined and drilled". It did not refer to control or supervision by a state. That still leaves open the question of what levels of discipline and drilling the (federal or state) government could demand of someone for them to be included in the Militia. It is already accepted that felons and the mentally ill may be prevented from exercising 2nd Amend…
Imagine if the 2A said this: > "A well tailored suit, being necessary to a sharply dressed citizenry, the right of the people to keep and wear clothing, shall not be infringed."
Does this mean that the government now has a right to force dress codes on people so that their suits are well tailored?
Also justification clauses have been used in other contemporary laws too:
> Retrospective laws are highly injurious, oppressive and unjust. No such laws, therefore, should be made, either for the decision of civil causes, or the punishment of offences. (From NH Ex Post Facto Article)
Does this mean that ONLY when the ex-post facto laws are injurious, oppressive and unjust, should that law be unconstitutional according to the NH constitution?
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My high school friends and I settled for using Gain and Pidgin to enable the "secure" icon. :)
Ah, the good old days when I could just plug my IM services into one desktop app. I miss those days very much. Now I use three Electron apps on a typical work day.
- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/purple-hangouts-git/ - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/purple-skypeweb-git/
Works even on old and crappy computers.