Google releases beta OpenPGP code

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Wed Jun 4 11:08:49 CEST 2014


On 06/04/2014 01:58 AM, Mark Rousell wrote:
> On 04/06/2014 09:32, Werner Koch wrote:
>> Maybe Google now fears that users move away from Gmail and to mitigate
>> that they provide end-to-end so that they still have access to their
>> user's traffic pattern.
>
> Oh perhaps they simply take the view that very few people will use it
> (sadly). It will give people the warm and fuzzies because it's there but
> few people who use Gmail will know why it's there or how to use it or
> bother to use it.

That'd be my guess as well. Good PR + limited uptake == profit!

Doug




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