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#1 Get your friends or community interested

If you hear friends grumbling about their lack of privacy, ask them if they're interested in attending a workshop on Email Self-Defense. If your friends don't grumble about privacy, they may need some convincing. You might even hear the classic "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" argument against using encryption.

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Here are some arguments you can use to help explain why it's worth it to learn GnuPG. Feel free to mix and match whichever you think will make sense to your community:

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Here are some arguments you can use to help explain why it's worth it to learn GnuPG. Mix and match whichever you think will make sense to your community:

Strength in numbers

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Each person who chooses to resist mass surveillance with encryption makes it easier for others to resist as well. People normalizing the use of strong cryptography has multiple powerful effects: It means those that truly need it, like potential whistle-blowers and activists, are more likely to learn about it. More people using it for more things also makes it harder for surveillance systems to single out those that can't afford to be found, and shows solidarity with those people.

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Each person who chooses to resist mass surveillance with encryption makes it easier for others to resist as well. People normalizing the use of strong encryption has multiple powerful effects: it means those that truly need privacy, like potential whistle-blowers and activists, are more likely to learn about encryption. More people using encryption for more things also makes it harder for surveillance systems to single out those that can't afford to be found, and shows solidarity with those people.

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People you respect may already be using encryption

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Many journalists, whistleblowers, activists, and researchers use GnuPG, so your friends might unknowingly have heard of a few people who use it already. You can search for "BEGIN PUBLIC KEY BLOCK" + keyword to help make a list of people and organizations who use GnuPG which your community will likely recognize.

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Respect your friends' privacy

There's no objective way to judge what constitutes a privacy-sensitive correspondence. As such, it's better not to presume that just because you find an email you sent to a friend innocuous, your friend (or a surveillance agent, for that matter!) feels the same way. Show your friends respect by encrypting your correspondences with them.

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People you respect may already be using encryption

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Many journalists, whistleblowers, activists, and researchers use GnuPG, so your friends might unknowingly have heard of a few people who use it already. You can search for "BEGIN PUBLIC KEY BLOCK" + keyword to help make a list of people and organizations who use GnuPG which you community will likely recognize.

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