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Sorry if you're relying on PGP for something. Know that there is no absolute privacy. EVERYthing is comped or can be. People who are relying on PGP need to understand that. It's an axiom of crypto that anything can be broken, given enough computer time. The point is that the more valuable a target, the more computer time will be devoted to break it. If all you're trying encrypt are comms to your mother about Thanksgiving dinner, no problem. Those with more sensitive topics might have a concern. A long time ago I came to realize that security is in layers ... who are you hoping to protect your comms from? Just people on your local area network? People who work at your ISP? Corporate spies? Nation-actor spies? Privacy of personal info to prevent identity theft?
Anything that can be broken will be, proportional to its importance to those attempting to break it. We basically stopped talking about certain things even inside our own home, even when walking out of doors.
Data is in cleartext when inside the memory of your computer/device. Hacks that access that hardware hypervisor inside the Intel CPU potentially have access to EVERYTHING. There are laser thingies that can point at the window from a mile away and read your lips or pick up vibrations of your speech or detect faint variations in the light of the LEDs on the back of your modem or ethernet cable. There are malware that get inside the firmware of your hard drive or networking adapter and cannot be removed or detected. There is a kind of malware that can jump across boundaries in memory or read adjacent bits they are not supposed to have access to. There's a kind of malware that uses vibrations of the moving parts of a spinning hard drive or CD-ROM drive to detect auditory info.
There. Is. No. Privacy. Whatsoever.
It's a fact I hate, but it is the truth.