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Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 04, 2007 @11:26AM from the can-you-spot-the-secret-message-in-this-dept-line dept.

Linux.com (Same owners as Slashdot) has a story up about FireGPG and says "Gmail may be an excellent Web-based email application, but there is no easy way to use it with privacy tools like GnuPG. The FireGPG extension for Firefox is designed to solve this problem. It integrates nicely into Gmail's interface and allows you...
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The Fascination with Encryption (Score:5, Funny)

by Ian McBeth ( 862517 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @11:31AM (#19382535) Homepage

For me, I just like to use it, to make people think I am doing something.
Keeps the snoops on their toes.

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Re:Nerds with something to hide (Score:5, Funny)

by morgan_greywolf ( 835522 ) * writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @11:35AM (#19382597) Homepage Journal

I don't understand this fascination with encryption. Why do people use it. Is it because you're hiding something illegal? It's kiddie porn isn't it? Be honest!

Nope. It's secret terrorist plots to overthrow the tyrannical American Government!

Oh, wait! I wasn't supposed to say that, was I?

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Altered for slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

by LiquidCoooled ( 634315 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @11:36AM (#19382605) Homepage Journal

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GNUPG v0.4.0 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Wonderful
ewurnfi3u834j9few4jf9oewfqvi7y&H*&HAwr8hw78er7hfw8 f7hh4839h47f7e
wf8943f89jw3r8j9fesajaejro5gvl;rhyklyfp[ult0h43jg8 394g84953jgf84
fnw98efj89324rtuerjgeiorgtjerilgtjireogniregunreng erniguiregt980
werj
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

I have nothing more to add

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Re:I wouldn't think google would like this (Score:5, Funny)

by morgan_greywolf ( 835522 ) * writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @11:39AM (#19382641) Homepage Journal

Nah, they'll just start sending 'Soldier of Fortune Magazine'-type ads at you.

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Re:The Fascination with Encryption (Score:5, Funny)

by Bromskloss ( 750445 ) writes: <auxiliary.addres ... l.com minus city> on Monday June 04, 2007 @11:40AM (#19382657)

For me, I just like to use it, to make people think I am doing something. Keeps the snoops on their toes.

I keep them on their toes by acting completely normal, having them looking for steganography.

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Re:Altered for slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

by kypper ( 446750 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @11:42AM (#19382685)

You want me to do what with hot grits?

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Re:Does not this break GMAIL's business model? (Score:5, Funny)

by $RANDOMLUSER ( 804576 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @11:43AM (#19382709)

If all/most of my messages are encrypted, how will they know, what to peddle to me?

Aluminum foil. Survival equipment. Wellbutrin.

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Re:Point & Click Encryption? (Score:3, Funny)

by LiquidCoooled ( 634315 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @11:47AM (#19382797) Homepage Journal

When I want to totally encrypt an email I just plug in my DVORAK keyboard, put on a blindfold and type as usual.

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Re:Nerds with something to hide (Score:5, Funny)

by brunascle ( 994197 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @11:48AM (#19382815)

perhaps because i'd like to send an email from work to my GF with something like "hey wanna fuck tonight?" and i'm not particularly keen on the network guys reading that.

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Re:Nerds with something to hide (Score:5, Funny)

by daeg ( 828071 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @11:51AM (#19382857)

Clever. Hiding your kiddie porn encoded in anarchist rants! I'm onto you, buddy!

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Re:The Fascination with Encryption (Score:4, Funny)

by jimstapleton ( 999106 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @12:04PM (#19383039) Journal

I only use one-time use pads when sending my emails. It keeps them busy and unable to decrypt the emails!

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Your girlfriend called... (Score:5, Funny)

by xxxJonBoyxxx ( 565205 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @12:11PM (#19383121)

Hey, your girlfriend called. She said she couldn't read the garbled message you sent. However, I passed on your "wanna...tonight" message to her and she said "yes" but I don't think your name came up. So...if you don't mind, I'd like to get out a little early tonight...

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Re:The Fascination with Encryption (Score:5, Funny)

by Bromskloss ( 750445 ) writes: <auxiliary.addres ... l.com minus city> on Monday June 04, 2007 @12:24PM (#19383295)

Well, have you found the hidden message in the parent post yet?

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Re:Nerds with something to hide (Score:3, Funny)

by Rob T Firefly ( 844560 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @12:49PM (#19383627) Homepage Journal

This is your boss. The network guys tell me you've just used the Company's network to write "hey wanna fuck tonight?" on a public website. You're fired.

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Re:Nerds with something to hide (Score:5, Funny)

by iago-vL ( 760581 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @12:57PM (#19383721)

Or maybe from your secret lover, etc. You get the picture.
It's that Cathy, isn't it? She's always trying to break up Alice and Bob!

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Re:Does not this break GMAIL's business model? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @01:40PM (#19384263)

Aluminum foil.

You need tin foil to make the hats - mind control rays pass right through aluminum!!! Don't you ever wonder why everyone still talks about "tin foil" even though all you can buy on store shelves nowadays is aluminum? It's because They don't want you to notice the switch!!!

Survival equipment.

Sure, if you want a compass that's got the New World Order's tracking devices already installed. I make my own survival equipment.

Wellbutrin.

You see how well my encryption has kept me under your radar? Don't you feel foolish trying to sell me anti-depressants, when I'm in my MANIC phase right now!?! Ha ha ha!

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Re:Nerds with something to hide (Score:5, Funny)

by ChrisMounce ( 1096567 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @02:07PM (#19384713)

Anonymous Coward is hoping to make a fortune on Patent #53892647956403765437856348756438756487563, "Method for tucking the flap inside the envelope".

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Re:The Fascination with Encryption (Score:4, Funny)

by u8i9o0 ( 1057154 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @02:08PM (#19384729)

I keep them on their toes by acting completely normal, having them looking for steganography.
Well, have you found the hidden message in the parent post yet?
Sorry, there is no hidden message.
1. You noted that you use encryption when acting normal.
2. However, you were posting on /. which has been established (quite conclusively) as abnormal behavior.
3. Since you were not "acting completely normal", it is obvious that you were not employing any encryption scheme.
4. :)
5. Profit!

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Re:The Fascination with Encryption (Score:3, Funny)

by clem ( 5683 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @02:09PM (#19384733) Homepage

How about a hint -- does it have anything to do with that strange illegible text in your sig?

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Re:Altered for slashdot (Score:2, Funny)

by ady1 ( 873490 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @03:18PM (#19385711)

eitheryourencryptionhasbeencomrpmisedorisuddenlybe engrantedtheabilitytodecryptmessagesinsidemyhead

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Re:The Fascination with Encryption (Score:5, Funny)

by Warg! The Orcs!! ( 957405 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @05:31PM (#19387593)

My wife uses one-time pads but I wouldn't send them in the mail.

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Re:Nerds with something to hide (Score:3, Funny)

by cammoblammo ( 774120 ) writes: <cammoblammo@gma[ ]com ['il.' in gap]> on Monday June 04, 2007 @07:44PM (#19389191)

The third participant in the conversation is usually Carol.
That's what she wants you to think. If Carol signed her messages Cathy would find spoofing her address much harder.

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Re:Nerds with something to hide (Score:3, Funny)

by brunascle ( 994197 ) writes: on Monday June 04, 2007 @11:05PM (#19391271)

hey guess what? fuck you.

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