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I started reading to know what's wrong with PGP, but it very quickly escalated to the discussion about making educated bets about cryptography as a whole. I think this is hugely important topic and it is a real shame this is not being discussed more. Maybe security people a more conscious about that (I surely hope so), but general public doesn't seem to be. And by "general public" here I actually mean self proclaimed paranoids and not your grandma or a girlfriend. We talk a lot about if something is proclaimed secure by so-called experts, about theoretical weaknesses of Telegram or something, monitor important 0-days, buzz about how bad it is to give all your private data to facebook or google and how fucked we all are. But we rarely seriously talk about who our adversaries really are, what exactly we are trying to protect and if we're using the right tools for that. About making educated bets. And in the end of the day, this is all it is actually about — making educated bets. Because not all our data, not all our accounts are equally important, and they are not equally important to the different kinds of adversaries. So the only way to be somewhat secure is to recognize, that there's no absolute security and we cannot protect everything. So better start taking it consciously and focusing on what's really important.


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