German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

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On Sunday 1 March 2015 at 6:58:19 PM, in
<mid:BD57B3DB-6D9F-4189-93DE-EC7351DD8D60 at webkeks.org>, Jonathan
Schleifer wrote:


> That "wasted energy" is a lot less than the energy we
> currently waste on spam,

I suspect my computer wastes very little energy in downloading and
storing a few dozen spam messages per month.



> especially if you take into
> consideration the amount of human time wasted.

Most are so obvious that we are talking fractions of a second per
email. Or maybe people who automatically filter their spam spend a
bit less time looking through it for false-positives.



>  The
> majority of the e-mail traffic is used up by spam.

I'm never convinced it is as big an iassue as some make out.


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