Sounds like security absolutism again. Encrypted email, even using a weak algorithm, is more secure than unencrypted email and will deter some percentage of attackers.
Yes, PGP is weak, metadata is exposed, email wasn't designed for any of this, and people will fuck it up.
It tickles me that plaintext replies are submitted as an argument against encrypted email. The reply being in plaintext is an example of UNencrypted email. If you oppose a thing, let it be because of what it is, not its opposite. You don't sell your failed useless car because of that one time it broke down and you had to take the bus. Hopefully in my view, you sell it because of what it does when it works - it burns money, stinks, is loud, and kills people. (Car hater here, so I personally know the difference with this particular analogy.)
Actually to me "encrypted email" isn't even a thing. There's encryption and then there's email. If you have a secret, you encrypt it, and if you're OK with sending it publicly (i.e. via email) then you attach this encrypted secret thing to the email. And get the key to the person somehow privately. I dunno what the big deal is. No matter how earnestly and ferociously you declare yourself the mom and dad of the world, they all still keep messing up, murdering each other etc. and nobody cares, so take a vacation.
Yes, PGP is weak, metadata is exposed, email wasn't designed for any of this, and people will fuck it up.
It tickles me that plaintext replies are submitted as an argument against encrypted email. The reply being in plaintext is an example of UNencrypted email. If you oppose a thing, let it be because of what it is, not its opposite. You don't sell your failed useless car because of that one time it broke down and you had to take the bus. Hopefully in my view, you sell it because of what it does when it works - it burns money, stinks, is loud, and kills people. (Car hater here, so I personally know the difference with this particular analogy.)
Actually to me "encrypted email" isn't even a thing. There's encryption and then there's email. If you have a secret, you encrypt it, and if you're OK with sending it publicly (i.e. via email) then you attach this encrypted secret thing to the email. And get the key to the person somehow privately. I dunno what the big deal is. No matter how earnestly and ferociously you declare yourself the mom and dad of the world, they all still keep messing up, murdering each other etc. and nobody cares, so take a vacation.