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  • Windows 10 wants to remove my pgp 10

    From Sergio Mm@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 29 03:28:28 2021
    Hi all,

    I have been using pgp 10 (the old free version) for only encrypting single files (as *.exe for easy portability) and shredding. Wonderful tool.
    Today microshit tells me that pgp is not compatible with its crap update and will remove it. I managed to delay the update but I am in deep trouble.
    I could still use pgp within a virtual machine at least to encrypt files, but it is quite a nuisance, the overhead is heavy, I encrypt quite a few files per day. But at least shredding would be a problem.
    Please suggest me what I can do: a reliable shredder (possibly free) would be wellcome. If it was also able to encrypt like pgp (*.exe) even better

    Thanks in advance to whomever will reply

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  • From David E. Ross@21:1/5 to Sergio Mm on Sat May 29 08:44:41 2021
    On 5/29/2021 3:28 AM, Sergio Mm wrote:
    Hi all,

    I have been using pgp 10 (the old free version) for only encrypting
    single files (as *.exe for easy portability) and shredding. Wonderful
    tool. Today microshit tells me that pgp is not compatible with its
    crap update and will remove it. I managed to delay the update but I
    am in deep trouble. I could still use pgp within a virtual machine at
    least to encrypt files, but it is quite a nuisance, the overhead is
    heavy, I encrypt quite a few files per day. But at least shredding
    would be a problem. Please suggest me what I can do: a reliable
    shredder (possibly free) would be wellcome. If it was also able to
    encrypt like pgp (*.exe) even better

    Thanks in advance to whomever will reply


    I use Eraser from <http://eraser.heidi.ie/>. Also, I am still with
    Windows 7. I have seen Windows 8 and 10 and do not like what I see.

    --
    David E. Ross
    <http://www.rossde.com/>

    The Republican Party has abandoned all principles and has
    instead become a personality cult worshiping Donald Trump.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Johann Beretta@21:1/5 to Sergio Mm on Wed Aug 11 11:47:01 2021
    On 5/29/21 3:28 AM, Sergio Mm wrote:
    Hi all,

    I have been using pgp 10 (the old free version) for only encrypting single files (as *.exe for easy portability) and shredding. Wonderful tool.
    Today microshit tells me that pgp is not compatible with its crap update and will remove it. I managed to delay the update but I am in deep trouble.
    I could still use pgp within a virtual machine at least to encrypt files, but it is quite a nuisance, the overhead is heavy, I encrypt quite a few files per day. But at least shredding would be a problem.
    Please suggest me what I can do: a reliable shredder (possibly free) would be wellcome. If it was also able to encrypt like pgp (*.exe) even better

    Thanks in advance to whomever will reply


    Stop using Microsoft's shitware operating systems? You DO NOT control
    your own PC as the evidence clearly shows. MS will allow you to have
    the software that IT deems ACCEPTABLE.

    Honestly, I'm surprised when ANYONE bothers to mix cryptography and
    Windows. You don't have any idea what your OS is doing in the
    background. Nobody else does either because all of the source code for
    windows is kept hidden away from you plebs.

    For all you know, Windows might keep an unencrypted copy of your files
    in the swap space or maybe it uploads it to the cloud. Maybe it does
    nothing with it. Maybe the RNG (random number generator) is shit..
    Nobody can check because the code is secret.

    If you really care about your security, stop using Windows.

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