HTTPS as well

[Mike Acker]

On 14:59, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> yep. Phil Zimmerman noted that in his original essay on PGP.  If you
>> > have a malware infection you can no longer speak to what your computer
>> > is or is not doing.
> In fact, it's quite a bit worse than that.  Your traffic is secure only so long as both endpoints are secure.  Depending on who does the numbers, 15%-30% of all desktops are pwn3d.  Even if your desktop is safe, the odds aren't good the other end will be, too.
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> There are many reasons why I feel OpenPGP is more or less irrelevant in the world today, outside of some very special case scenarios.  This is one of the big ones: OpenPGP's necessary precondition -- that our endpoints are both securable and secured -- is not met.
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you are 100% correct.  and this applies to HTTPS as well. also S/FTP

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/MIKE