Relevance of PGP?

[rob-IdUdaS/NwSyQrzRDRVclEQ at public.gmane.org (Rob Hasselbaum)]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:05 PM, John Abreau <jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> As far as I'm concerned, using S/MIME means handing off control of
> who I trust to an unknown mix of government and corporate entities
> who have no vested interest in actually protecting my privacy.For the
> corporate entities involved, their only vested interest is short-term
> profit.
>
> And when I say "PGP" by itself, I mean it as shorthand for the family
> of compatible implementations that includes GnuPG, and is based
> on a distributed Web-of-Trust model, not a centralized model like SSL.
>
>
>
I don't know about you, but I transmit more private information over HTTPS
than SMTP.