I get and send ~ 10 to 15 emails per week. Not even 1 of my regular 'correspondence' uses GnuPG. It's too complicated to setup and even harder to use for avg Joe, like bitcoin, he has to spent time understanding totally new concepts. And no one is willing to do that, unfortunately :-(
It's true, Glenn Greenwald said that he almost gave up on Snowden's information because it was too hard to set up GPG correctly!
Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
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Re: Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
#32The very first step, assuming you already have an email account, for all platform pages: >INSTALL THE ENIGMAIL PLUGIN FOR YOUR EMAIL PROGRAM I Googled Enigmail as I was not familiar with it. It is "a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey." This seems incredibly shortsighted. Tons of people out there are on Outlook, Apple Mail, Gmail, etc. and not interested in Thunderbird. There are other options, f…
Reminds me of an article I saw the other day from a guy who ran his own mail server realizing Google already has most of his email, even though he didn't have a Google account, because senders and/or recipients other than himself used Gmail.
You mean this one: (http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-bec...)?
Re: Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
#33The very first step, assuming you already have an email account, for all platform pages: >INSTALL THE ENIGMAIL PLUGIN FOR YOUR EMAIL PROGRAM I Googled Enigmail as I was not familiar with it. It is "a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey." This seems incredibly shortsighted. Tons of people out there are on Outlook, Apple Mail, Gmail, etc. and not interested in Thunderbird. There are other options, f…
GPGMail might be excellent for you, but it do not support my system. Why are you complaining that FSF have chosen to write a guide that works on any operative system, rather than a guide exclusive to one? If the goal is to "fight for computer user's rights, and promote the development of free (as in freedom) software like GnuPG", then writing about a OS X only program does not sound consistent with their goals.
Apple mail also already support encrypting and signing mail (https://support.apple.com/kb/PH11790). In the interest of defeating the surveillance state, one might start by fixing mail programs that do not already natively support encryption?
Re: Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
#34I get and send ~ 10 to 15 emails per week. Not even 1 of my regular 'correspondence' uses GnuPG. It's too complicated to setup and even harder to use for avg Joe, like bitcoin, he has to spent time understanding totally new concepts. And no one is willing to do that, unfortunately :-(
A possible solution to this is private mail servers that encrypt and decrypt automatically for you.
The idea that you go to the store, pick up a small box, and it will do all the security for you is the stated goal of freedom box (https://freedomboxfoundation.org/). Once transparent end-to-end encryption that avg joe can use get traction, mail encryption will hopefully become default.
Re: Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
#35The very first step, assuming you already have an email account, for all platform pages: >INSTALL THE ENIGMAIL PLUGIN FOR YOUR EMAIL PROGRAM I Googled Enigmail as I was not familiar with it. It is "a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey." This seems incredibly shortsighted. Tons of people out there are on Outlook, Apple Mail, Gmail, etc. and not interested in Thunderbird. There are other options, f…
Outlook, Mail, and Gmail aren't Free Software. The FSF post isn't short sighted, it's principled.
Re: Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
#36The very first step, assuming you already have an email account, for all platform pages: >INSTALL THE ENIGMAIL PLUGIN FOR YOUR EMAIL PROGRAM I Googled Enigmail as I was not familiar with it. It is "a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey." This seems incredibly shortsighted. Tons of people out there are on Outlook, Apple Mail, Gmail, etc. and not interested in Thunderbird. There are other options, f…
Outlook, Mail, and Gmail aren't Free Software. The FSF post isn't short sighted, it's principled.
Re: Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
#37The very first step, assuming you already have an email account, for all platform pages: >INSTALL THE ENIGMAIL PLUGIN FOR YOUR EMAIL PROGRAM I Googled Enigmail as I was not familiar with it. It is "a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey." This seems incredibly shortsighted. Tons of people out there are on Outlook, Apple Mail, Gmail, etc. and not interested in Thunderbird. There are other options, f…
Outlook, Mail, and Gmail aren't Free Software. The FSF post isn't short sighted, it's principled.
Neither are OS X and Windows, yet they have their own sections.
Re: Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
#38For Android you can use APG and K9-Mail. You will learn to love it if you have multiple accounts and 'get' the interface.
Recommended use is with Thunderbird and Enigmail on desktop, where you should also have your mail filters sorting your mail to the IMAP folders.
To install use F-Droid. F-Droid ist the Open Software Repository for Android. https://f-droid.org/
This is/feels like the recommended way to use PGP at the moment or at least the most useable.
Re: Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
#39If you're using a Mac, the excellent MailMate mail client supports GnuPG natively. http://manual.mailmate-app.com/preferences#openpgp_and_smime I can't speak to any shortcomings in its PGP support, as it's not something I personally use, but I've been using it as a MacMail/Thunderbird replacement since last September and have been quite satisfied.
This looks great but it is closed source. Perhaps that will change with his crowd finding? Until it becomes OSS there is no way I can use it
Re: Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
#40It will be more helpful when GMail has it built in... Google?
Google makes money on GMail by reading your email and serving related ads. They will never support built-in encryption.
There is reason to support crypto in Gmail even if it reduces their effective data pool. Take the startnext search engine that piggy backs on Google but with stronger privacy. Google could block it but they take the gamble that such privacy becomes more of a hot topic over time. By letting start next continue they can use them to feel out the market without losing much in terms of effective page ranking through link tracking. Really so long as the majority continue without privacy they are fine