Notices tagged with pgp, page 3
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Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 21:03:29 UTC Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (5/?)
What are the downsides of #PGP?
1. It encrypts your data in transit, but it does NOTHING to hide your (for our purposes, pseudonymous) identity, and passive observers, if they have access to the encrypted data, can tell who is talking to who, and when, even if they can't read what's inside the messages. It doesn't hide your "social graph"!
2. (crypto nerd thing) If someone steals your key, they can decrypt all old messages. Newer systems can prevent this from happening, but PGP is kind of a lowest common denominator for exchanging private stuff.
These posts will get interesting again soon, I hope. Just trying to make people understand. And again, we are doing this for FUN, with PSEUDONYMOUS IDENTITIES. -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 20:55:38 UTC Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (4/?)
Why would I NOT want to use #PGP / participate in #PGPDay
1. Your abusive government is overtly hostile to crypto users rather than the US standard of being covertly hostile to crypto users, and you could get in serious trouble for using it.
2. You think you need PGP/strong crypto for purposes which, if revealed could result in death or incarceration. This is a FUN, LOW-RISK BEGINNER'S PGP EXERCISE
3. You are resistant to pressure from pseudonymous Internet people and have better things to do (lol no you don't.)
4. You don't like challenges. It's not bad, but it's not a walk in the park either. -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 20:43:39 UTC Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (2/?)
2. What is #PGP, the "reason for the season, so to speak"
PGP (which stands for "pretty good privacy) is an ancient, arcane, poorly-documented and questionably-coded, hard-to-use piece of software with bad defaults.
BUT, can also:
* encrypt messages so that only recipients can read them, without having to first share a secret key or passphrase
* Encrypt files on-disk so that only you or the recipient can decrypt them.
* Causes ass-hemmoraghing in people that hate PGP and want it to die, including but not limited to: the federal government, your country's government, the NSA, the CIA, your local police, and oversensitive infosec experts (who are technically right, but lol.)
* GIVES YOU VALUABLE NERD CRED
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Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 20:34:57 UTC Christmas Personified as a Catgirl PGP DAY: (1/?)
1. What is #PGPDay?
In April 4, 2016 the world experienced an unprecedented event: Through mere peer pressure and boredom, as many as twelve under-20 youths and a handful of older adults willingly and without coercion, successfully installed and used #PGP to communicate. It is believed that this is the largest number of people to correctly install and use PGP in a 24 hour period in the history of the world, and defied claims that it is too hard or not cool.
In 2017 on the first weekend of April that @moonman is not overwhelmed with work, we honor this day and hope to repeat its success. https://shitposter.club/attachment/572169 -
Björn Schießle (bes@io.schiessle.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2016 08:47:45 UTC Björn Schießle Great post-Christmas present. New K-9 Mail version with PGP/MIME support released. https://io.schiessle.org/url/27735 #Android #pgp #k9mail -
majestyx (majestyx@gnusocial.no)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2016 18:53:20 UTC majestyx #gnupg #pgp #ssl #ssh ..... #NSA could put undetectable “trapdoors” in millions of #crypto keys https://gnusocial.no/url/302694 -
drak (drak@sn.1w6.org)'s status on Friday, 23-Sep-2016 19:40:38 UTC drak I was targeted by an attack on #GnuPG / #PGP: http://www.draketo.de/english/gnupg-attack -
asrafil@pod.geraspora.de (asrafil@pod.geraspora.de)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2014 11:26:24 UTC asrafil@pod.geraspora.de How To Combat Online Surveillance
source: http://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=12362
#NSA #GCHQ #Orwell #Fascism #Surveillance #PRISM #TEMPORA #BND - #TOR #Truecrypt #OTR #Pidgin #xmpp #jabber #Tail #PGP #occupy #self-defence