Bad design is bad In 2015 Moxie Marlinspike pointed out that the manual page for GPG is (now) 50% of the novel Fahrenheit 451. Any software whose man page approaches 20 thousand words better have a good excuse, and GPG can only gesture vaguely at decades of questionable design. GPG gets a bad rap but it isn’t really much of an outlier. Security software has a long history of crumby, unintuitive interfaces and terrible design choices. A deep dive into …
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