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‎לופֿטמענטש | 15 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It's somewhat similar to send a PGP encrypted email to a nontechnical person and give #Bitcoin to a non-coiner.
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aljaz | 15 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 well in this case it was a very technical person, but more importantly it shows a very big weakness in gpg as a security mechanism - both parties have the ability to fuck up or decide to break the established privacy because nothing is enforcing adherence to the initially established level of privacy
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Vic | 15 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yes. I rarely use GPG for this reason. Its opt in, hardly any clients support integrations, web clients that do via browser extensions are fraught with trust issues, caching and more. 

Id much rather user kind 4 nostr DMs as a step up
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‎לופֿטמענטש | 15 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That's a 'lazy mess' case, it seems. Someone receiving an encrypted email should use things like the Thunderbird plugin or proper Mutt config, isn't it? So many solutions there, but none might be actually preventing this shit happen.

Apparently what you saying seems to be correct in every aspect. Some time ago when I still used fakebook I set up sending updates to my email encrypted by some PGP key I've lost (intentionally). After some time (it was probably a couple of years though) the shitters began sending me their regurgitations in plain text.