German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

[Martin Behrendt]

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Am 27.02.2015 um 22:28 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer:
> On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 22:15 +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
>> Most people run Windows or Android (or use Lenovo stuff) and thus
>> have anyway no control over their boxes.
> To be honest, I don't think that anyone using Windows, Android,
> MacOS or any other [semi-]proprietary system actually wants to be
> secure - neither do I think that we should waste our resource on
> securing them which is per se not possible.

At what point is a system a [semi-]proprietary system?
How many computers are out there where not even a single part of the
hardware (and firmware) is proprietary?
Where do you draw the line? If I would have to guess, I would say, the
device you wrote that sentence with, falls in the category
semi-proprietary...

greetings
Martin

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