BAD HARDWARE WEEK

 While OpenPGP isn’t quite “set it and forget it” technology, it is very effective—so effective, in fact, that instead of trying to crack the encryption, some government agencies have resorted to issuing subpoenas for private keys and passwords.
While this tutorial doesn’t provide you with an NSA-defeating level of protection (you still have much to learn, grasshopper), you now have the basics for keeping your information private from most casual attacks.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: What use of  weak encryption at all ?