[liberationtech] 15 years later, why can't Johnny still not encrypt?

[Lars Luthman]

On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 11:23 +0100, Anders Thoresson wrote: 
> Comparing the findings made by Whittens and compare them to the software =
> available today, not much seems to have happened. But does the conclusion=
>  still holds, that a lack of mass-adoption of email encryption is due to =
> problematic UX =E2=80=93 or are there other reasons that today are seen a=
> s more important?

I don't think it's about UI issues anymore, simply about the lack of a
critical mass and the move to webmail. Webmail operators, who by and
large are also ad mongers, have zero interest in providing tools for
client-side encryption since that would prevent them from analysing the
message content and use it for targeting ads.


--ll