You might not give a shit now but 15 years ago, the speed of S/MIME was so cripplingly slow it DID matter.
The only purpose for which it would have mattered was spamming, for which you don't need to encrypt your messages anyway.
But then, that's a whole other ethical bucket of fish.
And/or sausages.
Well - PDF's can't be made to be reflowable either.
PDFs could be made reflowable since at least Acrobat 5.
How getting bent out of shape over a simple and common mispelling exposes you as little more than a jackass that cant parse slightly malformed inputs.
You have to be spectacularly stupid to believe that someone can't parse malformed inputs when they provided the correct substitution. But I knew that about you.
Putting the keys on the webmail server allows the NSA to send that central point of contact a single national security letter demanding those keys,
And isn't required for encrypting webmail. Don't be such an idiot.
The republicans gave up too easily. Look how long and drawn out their battle against Obamacare was. In comparison, this measure seems to have been abandoned without much fight. I can't help but wonder why.
Because nobody cares by comparison. Everyone cares about health care. Not everyone even understands net neutrality. The part of government that you perceive is about 99% theater.
The first mistake made by email clients is they added support for a broken-by-design protocol called S/MIME which used asymmetric encryption through the entire message and was thus cripplingly slow.
Slow? Who gives a shit? We're talking about email. I have never noticed the time it takes to encrypt anything, actually. Not even a little bit. The only time I've never noticed being taken by encryption was during key generation.
You're right about how PGP/GPG didn't do enough for integration. That is sad.
webmail is ideologically incompatible with the very notion of secure communication that using encryption embodies.
Not really.
To whit--
No. That's one whit, or to wit.
Don't use words you don't understand. It helps. It really helps.
A webmail service holds not only the inbox itself, but also holds the contact list, and the presentation code.
The government already knows where you send your mail. They know where packets go over the internet. That's why they have taps at all the backbone providers, specifically so they can do that sort of thing.
That's why all those ways to recover your account exist, they're not necessary per se and you don't have to answer the security questions seriously. But when you have fucked up big and the answer is just gibberish you're pretty screwed. That's why people answer those with actual facts.
You fuck up big when you answer those with actual facts, because anyone who has done their research on you can now compromise your account. I gave my bank all bogus invented passwords as answers to questions like "what is your favorite fruit"
For one, the operating systems and apps do not treat keys and sigs as first-class objects; they always end up looking like inlined ASCII barf,
Or you could install enigmail, which turns it into informative text.
Your use of "always" is fail, as usual
It wasn't ALL republicans. I am a pretty hard core republican, but I wanted net neutrality from the start.
Republican is a party, it's not a belief system. If you're not aligned with the republican leadership, then you're not a hard core republican.
I think that this one of the rare moments that Betteridge's law of headlines does not apply.
It's one of the frequent times when that law does not apply, because the headline does not ask a question.
I don't recall what one I have used for Android, though I have used Nightfilter in the past that works well (though manual).
It's called twilight. It works pretty well, I haven't had any problems with it yet.
He can probably double the offer. Nah, as usual the government is rewarding cowardly tattletales or criminal rivals
Or someone already has him and this is just a way of handing them some cash for some unrelated matter, etc etc
So are you agreeing with me?
About intel, but not AMD. The AMD drivers are just crap. It's only if you institute artificial restrictions like that drivers must be OSS that AMD even gets a chance to be in the running.
The Adobe reader on the NST, for all its various flaws, is pretty good at reflowing even PDFs which are not designed to be reflowable.
Anyone who publishes a PDF made with Adobe tools which is not reflowable is a dillhole, although I realise that this is small comfort when you're trying to read.
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.
