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The actual article were commenting on right now is literally about why this doesn’t work. That’s the whole point of the article.

One example (from the article) is other people accidentally replying to your encrypted messages in plain text, including the entire reply history.

This is what TFA is about. PGP is not safe for people who actually need encryption.



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