West Lothian and email

[Ian Batten]

On 14 Jan 09, at 1047, David Hansen wrote:

> On 14 Jan 2009 at 9:54, Roland Perry wrote:
>
>> The problem always has been: whose format of encrypted email (not  
>> much
>> interoperability, afaik), and is there any format that doesn't  
>> require
>> at least "A level" computer science qualifications to operate?
>
> I'm not convinced that any of them which are punted to the public do
> need any skill to operate. Insert memory stick, type in passphrase is
> not a problem to anyone who can operate a computer.

Oh, behave.  Do you think that encouraging people to insert untrusted  
memory sticks and run binaries from them to which they then supply  
security credentials overall (a) improves or (b) reduces the public  
good?

ian