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Mark Dain Apparently Facebook now let you paste in your PGP key to have emails from them signed and encrypted! Maybe this leads to more adoption of PGP? facebook.com/notes...
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Nick Gibson Turned on. Looks intriguing. Very interested to see how this pans out.
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Simon Janes Your public key I assume? How many people are going to paste the wrong key?
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Mark Dain Probably very few, PGP tends to be used by people who'd know better, which is somewhat unfortunate. It would be nice if it were more mainstream.
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Martijn The same amount of people who otherwise would have put the wrong key online either way. I wouldn't worry about that too much.
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Martijn I turned it on. We'll see what happens. This is also interesting as it puts my public key on the page that is arguably most linked to me personally: my Facebook profile.
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Mark Dain They'll send you an email (Signed and Encrypted) with a confirm link. You can go one step further if you want and import their public key (linked in the blog post) to verify the signature.
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John Olinda That's *very* interesting, although the problem I have with Facebook isn't the data being intercepted but with Facebook itself. Not enough benefit provided for the information and privacy it costs me. Still, it's a step.
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Mark Dain It's unexpected move but perhaps it's to show Facebook are serious about your trust. I added my key because I think increasing usage of PGP can only be a good thing. I would love if we can shake the myth that encryption is only used by terrorists and paedophiles.
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