[Ir-l] [IR-L]: Re: RIP (fwd)

[Robin Gaskell]

Hi Charles,
  Thanks for the encouragement.

At 00:26 11/04/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>In a message dated 10/04/00 15:08:04 GMT Daylight Time, rgaskell at zeta.org.au 
>writes:
>
>> However, I have no time for PGP,
>
>That's because you don't know ho ridiculously easy and fast it is to use
>PGP, and it is s-e-c-u-r-e, believe me.  There is no practical way the
>filth can crack PGP messages effectively,  which is why they are trying
>to proscribe it.  
>
*   When I said I had no time for PGP, I meant that I could not budget any
more of my time to the FAQ and how-to-do-it files.  After spending my limit
of two hours trying to decode them and understand how the system works, I
decided to carry on using plaintext.

    Now, I know that there is no profit in it, so there is no Capitalistic
point in anyone writing out a PGP Manual in plain English.
    And, as far as it goes, I can follow this argument.  However, there are
other points than the Capitalistic one, and I am waiting for the
technically minded to wake up, that we are all in this together.  Perhaps
somewhere, some Very Bright Person has deigned to convert the computerese
on PGP into the language that the rest of the educated world understands.

    Is there an 'easy-reading' guide to PGP?

>Load up PGP!
>
*   I did.  After doing some research through the Web, I found that there
was a Rest-of-the-World version for people outside America, and I
downloaded the PGP Update to my Eudora Pro 3.  And after that the trail ran
cold.  I could not work out how I generated a key.  And nothing told me how
to use a key if I ever got one.  
    It is as if there is a special club: those whose brains click onto the
workings of PGP; and the rest of the population, which is, unfortunately,
unable to make the club's entrance requirements.

    If you can help, I would be delighted.

    By the way, I note you are on AOL; if you would like to discover that
your provider is a snoop, I will send you the contents of a letter in the
current edition of "NEXUS" Magazine.  Or you might discover it yourself, in
the letters columns, if you can find a shop selling this magazine: Vol. 7,
No. 3 
(April-May 2000), p4.

>Send FAKE  enctypted messages to hundreds of people!
>
*  I don't have that many e-addresses in my book.

>Send false PGP messages to your enemies,  and with any luck they may get 
>jailed for being unwilling  (you'll know "unable" is a better word)  to 
>decrypt them for the filth.
>
*  This would be a good idea to rub in the spupidity of the new
legislation.  And I would send English 'enemies' such messages if I knew
where to start. 

Power and Passion,

Robin Gaskell
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