[fab13n]

It's not about GPG sucking; it's about the absence of anything sucking less than GPG.

It's not about activists and journalists being (more or less) able to use GPG; it's about the fact that nobody who doesn't face as deadly a risk as them would bother to use GPG.

I didn't feel any denigration reading him; rather, the statement that:

* We have new crypto needs, in wake of revelations such as Snowden's;

* GPG isn't an adequate answer to those needs, and isn't likely to evolve into one;

* Tech people don't realize that GPG is unlikely to morph into an adequate solution, and therefore don't bother starting an alternative.

Finally, I believe that a successful answer would rely on excellent UX and PR at least as much as sound crypto. I'm not aware that Moxie is an expert in these fields (although he might have more talents than I know), so it's not obvious that he's in a position of showing rather than telling.