A 10-month Commerce Department probe concluded Meta could view all WhatsApp messages in unencrypted form

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[–] 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

oh lol. the trust chain is harder and harder to verify these days. i miss the good old days where I would write emails in vi and encrypt with gpg.

I still write emails with vi. but I lost touch with the one other friend I had who knew how to use gpg 😂😂😂

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    There are dozens of us! Dozens!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Is there an ELI5, foolproof, step-by-step tutorial? I tried Kleopatra on my own and was so completely befuddled; why is that, like, literally the only app out there in the whole world for PGP or GPG or whatever? Shouldn't there be dozens of such encoders?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    It heavily depends in your usecase but if you want to use gpg to encrypt emails and dont want to do it all in the terminal i really recommend using Thunderbird it integrates gpg very well and makes it mostly seamless.

    Other than that afaik Kleopatra is the only standalone GUI for gpg simply because most of the time gpg is integrated in workflows (simply using the cli interface vor gpg libraries) and plain gpg for simple tex/file encryption/signing is just not a usecase.many people have

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