PGP key passphrase lost

[Mark]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/16/2010 03:03 AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
:
>>
>> They feel that "the web" is insecure. I always laugh when I remember that time
>> when I purchased something online and the page said that if I felt insecure
>> so input my credit card number, I could fax it to them, as if the risk of
>> someone hijacking my mail was bigger that that of sending my CC number to a
>> machine where I couldn't who could read it...
>>
You lost me on this one - what do web insecurity and faxes have to do with mail?

The web is inherently insecure - it was designed that way.  SSL and
other enhancements help make it less insecure but a truly secure web
environment is years away and would require a huge international
effort to accomplish, especially given the incredible resistance to
any kind of true security by the very people who live and die by it -
our (US) military and national security infra(lack-of)structure.  How
can you have security on the web when the people loudest to insist on
it are at the same time demanding that it not exist?

Mark