And yes thats what he says in the original latacora post.
I read the article '''invariably CC the quoted plaintext of your encrypted message to someone else (we don’t know a PGP email user who hasn’t seen this happen)'''
So I made the (incorrect) leap to pgp using the long term key to encrypt files. My bad.
But this does not fix the original point it seems - email is not going to be "secure" any time soon. But you can send encrypted files over email to people.
tptacek's "why email is insecure" post is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16088386
And yes thats what he says in the original latacora post.
I read the article '''invariably CC the quoted plaintext of your encrypted message to someone else (we don’t know a PGP email user who hasn’t seen this happen)'''
So I made the (incorrect) leap to pgp using the long term key to encrypt files. My bad.
But this does not fix the original point it seems - email is not going to be "secure" any time soon. But you can send encrypted files over email to people.