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

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Jonathan Wilkes:
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> You can disagree with it, but it certainly is not a logical fallacy.

based on the substance of the editorial it describes, it certainly is.
it's "begging the claim." the fact that i have walked novice computer
users through installing and using gpg shows that the level of
difficulty is debatable. installing an operating system for the first
time is time consuming and dificult task for a novice as well. claiming,
"it is hard for a novice to installl an operating system and, thus,
novices should not install operating systems" is a logical fallacy. in
the case of pgp/gpg, it's a dangerous one.

the headline is reckless troll bait for the sheer point of grabbing
attention. it should be changed.