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prata at ghostlike.homelinux.org
Tue Dec 30 18:39:08 UTC 2003
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 01:24:26PM -0500, Sean Estabrooks typed in a frenzy:
> The real question to ask yourself is what risk are you
> protecting yourself from and what cost does it have for you and others.
> My statement stands, the risks are so small that the costs (complex
> ity and bandwidth) isn't justified.
>
> Sean
Now we both know that your question is relative (in part). On a list,
this question is quite valid, but if I'm not mistaken (and it's quite
likely that I am) your question is a general one. Well, I fail to see
how in a general context it is very relevant. All people should always
be concerned about security. That's my opinion, you're welcome to
disagree, and that's quite right of you do to so.
The point of my previous e-mail was -meant- to be technical, and once
again speaking from a technical stand point; what signing a message or
encrypting one for that matter costs me is about 2 seconds after tapping
the enter key. What does it cost for others? Well since I really try to
be as friendly as possible to other individual's computing abilities
(speaking of which if this conversation continues perhaps we can move
to just one on one discussion as I really do believe it's healthy), I
attempt to make everything as non-complex as possible. I only send in
text, I keep attachments to a minimum; so on and so forth. Only those
other people can say what it costs them.
Alex (not bein' argumentative)
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