Following the same logic, why bother setting strong passwords on Gmail? Or even bother at all with 2FA, I mean, after all, somebody can just read your unencrypted email in transit anyway, right?
This comment is not helpful at all. The original article did not mention with a single word the NSA or anything like it[1], but he is worried about things being stolen or hacked.
> So what does this get me? If somebody steals my laptop or phone, they can't access my email from my IMAP clients local store because it's all encrypted and my private PGP key is password protected. If somebody guesses my IMAP password, or uses an exploit to gain access to my account, they can't read my email because what they retrieve is encrypted.
And for both scenarios, the proposed tools are very much helpful.
[1]: Partially because the article says "Published @Thu, 13th Jan 2011"
