[Discuss] GPG encryption and gmail

[bencarr at gmail.com (Ben Carr)]

There is another option, not sure I feel about it, I generated a new key to
test:

ExtensionJumble Email Encryption
offered by https://www.jumble.io
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jumble-email-encryption/fjiggkonckoakfpobglkbckakfgcnidh?hl=en

It does GPG injection of Outlook and Google, the dev is also SUPER SUPER
responsive, thought not open to relicensing the code.

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> On 08/31/2016 07:58 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
>
>> Actually, I suggest not using Android at all in this capacity. Android
>> is not a secure, reliable platform.
>>
>
> Good point.
>
> I don't dare use Android for anything sensitive, it is too big a target,
> too weakly secured. I use NO Android banking apps.  (Were I an Apple type,
> same answer.)
>
> Actually, I do use a cheap and very off-brand Android phone for sensitive
> stuff--but I keep it /incommunicado/. I have never put a SIM in it (it came
> from Hong Kong, it is all international, it has two SIM slots!). I have
> never let it connect to the internet. So I don't need to trust it so much.
>
> But my daily phone and Nexus 7 tablet? No way I will type any sensitive
> passwords on either of them.
>
> My e-mail? Not so sensitive. I don't bother to encrypt messages.
>
> If I had really sensitive e-mail, how would I do that? An interesting
> question. It would depend on the details: What am I doing that is so damn
> special and who might be after it? How hard might they try? How much money
> do they have to spend, how good is the sound proofing where they keep the
> $5 wrenches (https://xkcd.com/538/)?
>
> There is a general-purpose good reason to encrypt e-mail: to make life
> harder for the spies. More encrypted traffic means more inaccessible hay
> for them to stack up in frustration.
>
> -kb
>
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