Re: [OT] Posting styles

[Indulekha <indulekha@theunworthy.com>]

In linux.debian.user, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
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> Indulekha wrote:
>> So, since I sometimes need big, thigh high rubber boots to keep my feet a=
> nd=20
>> legs dry and clean, I should just wear my big rubber boots everywhere all=
>=20
>> time then, right? That way whether I'm at the grocery store, the office, =
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>> the barn there'll be no worries. :D
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> A better analogy is that I put on my seat belt before starting a car,
> rather than engaging in a complex calculation of the likelyhood of
> needing that seatbelt.=20
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>> Besides, if everyone signed all mail it'd be a very short matter of time=
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>> til the means to spoof any gpg/pgp key would appear.=20
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> I'd recommend learning more about cryprography if you think that.
> I'll also observe that high-value things are already cryptographically
> authenticated, so also using crypto for lower-value things does not
> appreciably increase the motivation to break it.
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> see shy jo
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No downside at all then, eh? 

(apologies to the list, I will now resume resisting the urge to do 
that.) :)

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