[Discuss] Relevance of PGP?

[sweetser at alum.mit.edu (Doug)]

> I make sure to use it when my wife sends me email to my work email
> address. ?My employer doesn't need to be reading my personal email
> (there are laws against employers reading personal mail, but why trust
> people to abide by the law when you don't have to?). ?I also
> opportunistically use it whenever I can with other people, not out of
> need but more to establish the habit (like wearing a seat-belt).

No way I could get my wife to use new fangled technology :-) I am having enough


> Although I have to say, I've been impressed lately by my insurance agent
> and my mortgage broker in that they've graduated to sending me things in
> encrypted zip files (when what they're sending includes sensitive
> personal data of mine), and they don't balk at all when I send them
> encrypted zips. ?They're inching closer to the right solution...

This makes some sense to me: lawyers, guns and money people should be
using encryption. How do you get the key from them? I doubt they
attend the BLU meeting :-)

Doug