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Not their point tho. Me too, gpg, no problem. Heck I had the "'smuggled' out of the country as a book" pgp back when.

My kids? I really am not so sure at all. Still too early to tell for sure but so far I don't think any will be as technically savvy as I am. I really doubt they'd know what GPG (or PGP) are and how to use it.

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Presumably if you're leaving your kids an encrypted file with valuable stuff in it they won't be so illiterate that they can't figure out how to open it. Most people don't know gpg because they have no motivation to learn it not because they're incapable of learning it.

No motivation, sure. But do they even care? Most people just don't care about this stuff. You try to get them to care and they "say, yeah, okay, yeah, I know" as they roll their eyes and go back to scrolling Instagram or whatever.

The apathy is real and I don't see it getting better.

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