[Enigmail] Societal and technical obstacles to widely-adopted encryption

[Robert J. Hansen]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> COULDN'T DO on a Mac, period.  The OS and interface wouldn't let you.
> (Some of these are probably much easier to do on OSX than classic MacOS.)

Given I spend most of my time in OS X staring at a bash prompt, yeah, 
probably so.  :)

> It's the old failing of exclusive GUIs:  They make most commonplace
> actions trivial, but make many unusual actions difficult or impossible.

Yes, and I think this just underscores my point that ease-of-use is not 
all it's cracked up to be.  "Ease" is a subjective term and "use" is an 
underspecified term: who finds it easy, and how is this person using the 
system?