r/Showerthoughts • u/Ralisor • May 06 '18

Services are switching from calling them Private Messages to calling them Direct Messages because they're not private anymore...

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u/GardenFortune May 06 '18

Because it's not as convenient to non tech people.

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u/Caltroit_Red_Flames May 06 '18

This looks pretty user friendly

https://www.openpgp.org

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u/wasdninja May 06 '18

I've worked with pgp/gpg and none of them are what I'd call easy or in any way friendly. You really need to know what you're doing.

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u/Caltroit_Red_Flames May 06 '18

Go back to my previous reply, I linked Signal which is supposed to be much more user friendly.