I like dogs. No – I LOVE dogs. Not unconditionally (I really don't like small yapping dogs), but there sure a lot of dogs that make my heart soft.

Problem is, I don't want to own one.

I would only want to own it 2 hours a day, and of that time I would want to spend [...]

The typical stand

Up until recently, I was of the opinion, that computer security was not for me. It's a hassle to encrypt email, and there's no point, since I am such a law-abiding angel.

My first steps

Recently I started getting interested in encryption, because I read cryptonomicon. I wanted to have a tinge of Randy Waterhouse [...]

When you receive an encrypted email, you get the added thrill of "opening the envelope" before you can read it.

This is very much in thread with Phil Zimmermann's analogy about why people send letters in envelopes rather than postcards.