@rakoo @delta @cy @thunderbird
It is a good tool because it allows for self-custody of keys.
- Also by that notion manually setting up an eMail account is also complicated for anything that Thunderbird can't autoguess or doesn't have in it's database.
Shure that isn't an excuse for #Thunderbird to not deliver sane defaults and handhold users asking them at account creation/import if they want to create/import a keypair and/or wish to automatically activate it.
- Same with pulic keys: #Enigmail used to have the nice feature to automagically attach the Pubkey to every eMail and to automatically sign and encrypt them. In fact I have this preconfigured to the point that any non-encrypted eMail requires me to manually confirm stuff.
I don't "belittle people for not knowing how to use gpg" but instead acknowledge the lack of #TechLiteracy as a matter of facts because most people got groomed into being consoomers and into ignorant users.
- It's not their fault, it's decades of failed education and awareness that now demand compound interest like credit card debt.
blah.rako.spacerakoo (@rakoo@blah.rako.space)@kkarhan I'm sorry but no, gpg in @thunderbird doesn't "just work". You need to manually create a key with the 16 clicks and technical chops that go with it, you need to understand the settings, y...
