Comment by lunchables
7 years ago
Yeah, most (all) of these arguments seem silly. The primary argument not to use it in emails because someone MIGHT improperly quote your email in a reply and then NOT encrypt their response? Well someone might screenshot your Signal app, or have malware on their phone, or a million other things. It seems like such an absurd corner case to me.
For my use case I don't have any concerns about using GPG. I encrypt files with it, and if anyone wants to put up any money that they can access my files, let me know what escrow service you want to use.
Not because it "MIGHT" happen, because it does happen.
I mean "might happen" in any particular instance. Not that it has never happened and only "might" in the future. Because 0.000000000000000000000000001% of messages have been accidentally exposed does not make PGP inherently bad.