[Spooky23]

People in the United States, especially younger people, are amazingly obtuse about this stuff.

When you peruse the mailing lists or other discussion forums re: GPG or PGP, you'll start to notice that you are interacting with, or at least reading stuff from more Germans than you had previously.

Think about why Germans seem to be more interested in privacy and personal email security. Many Germans were or know victims of the pervasive police state, or know folks who participated in that apparatus.

I suspect that people here won't smarten up until some massive and egregious privacy violation emerges.