Anyone else feel like people using auto-encrypt got what was coming to them?

Seriously, I don't understand the lack of care people have for basic OPSEC. The entire point of PGP is that only two people can ever read the message - the sender and the receiver. If you give the message to a third party, PGP is worse than useless! You have no idea who is looking at that message or what they are doing with it. It's like giving a top-secret letter to some dude you met at a bar who says he'll deliver it for you. It doesn't even matter if you're too lazy to use TAILS, because you can get PGP on a toaster.

Maybe if PGP were hard to use, I could get why people would want to take the risk. But it's not! You're literally just copy-and-pasting shit. It takes maybe a minute the first time you use a vendor, and ten seconds once you have their key saved. I really do not get why people are willing to risk 30 years of jail time to save 30 seconds. I hope the people shitting their pants over the Hansa bust have learned their lesson, because they would have nothing to worry about if they had used PGP.


Comments


[3 Points] BananasAndBlowMe:

I think people get scared off from PGP before they even try it because of all the morons who take one look at it, decide it's too much to get their tiny minds around, and then whine on here about it. Plus the fact that market based encryption is available means people will use it. I think the Superlist should forbid markets that even offer this "service" moving forward.


[3 Points] None:

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[3 Points] mrmcepic69:

It's natural selection, the stupid die and get arrested while the smart get to stay in their homes snorting coke off their computer monitors.


[2 Points] Clay_Bateman:

I'm gonna be honest, at the risk of being derided. When I started on Agora I don't think there WAS autoencrypt (I could be wrong). So I always knew how to do PGP. When it became available on other markets it was just laziness and complacency on my part. I can't justify it, just explain why I ended up using it a lot (although never on Hansa). Same with setting the Tor Security Slider to max. I just stopped doing it because of complacency.

So, yeah, only myself to blame but at least after this, assuming I come out unscathed, I won't be making the same mistakes again.


[1 Points] ice_cream4breakfast:

Yes