On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:18:57PM +0000, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > On 05/28/2013 04:17 PM, Forlasanto wrote: > > The fact remains that email is "the house that Jack built." The wall > > plugs are upside down, the wiring is sketchy at best, the plumbing is > > crazy and doesn't function correctly, the house is half wood and half > > brick, and/Jack forgot to put locks on the doors./ > > > > The fact that younger generations don't see email as a viable system is > > telling. It's an opportunity for something /better /to take email's > > place. Hopefully something with built-in encryption, rather than > > encryption tacked on as an afterthought. Just my two cents. > > It is a pretty good two cents but you don't understand where the > encryption is needed most. What needs to happen is that the aging > SMTP protocol needs to be replaced by a SSMTP (Secure Simple Mail > Transfer Protocol): > > http://securemecca.blogspot.com/2012/09/vote-against-spam.html
The code is there. The problem is that so few use it. I always enable STARTTLS but I see a lot of rejections. I think that the problem that nobody wants to face is key management. Vetting potential trusted introducers is *hard* and you have to keep doing it periodically. Maintaining trust stores is hard and tedious. Most end users just don't do it. To a certain extent the problem is fundamentally intractable. Trust is a complicated beast and depends on individual values and judgments. Automation can help but can't take it over. > But not only young people today, but a lot of people that used > to use email no longer use it. Unless a way to get rid of the > spam can be devised only a few stalwarts that MUST use email > will use it. But I dumped Gnome 3 entirely after looking at I can't wait to see a serious legal or engineering discussion taking place over Twitter. No, on second thought I can.... Imagine if this thread were being carried on by us scribbling on each other's Facebook walls. *shudder* > OpenSuSE 12.3 with Gnome as the last straw because I could only > use Firefox and LibreOffice. This smart-phone GUI on a desktop > shows that thinking is in short supply. But they just approved > the iPhone and iPad for military use now. The world is changing > but most of the changes aren't good. Wow, *real* military use? I want to see an iPhone after Raytheon has had a go at it. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient.
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