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bemildred

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4. Yes.
Fri Aug 30, 2013, 09:14 AM
Aug 2013

I expect one consequence of this fuss is that the technology will be moved along in the direction of making this all "transparent" to the user and "private" in the old sense that nobody knows, which is feasible, just inconvenient to our "owners".

I quite agree about email, and would say the same of the whole web. A good place to talk, but not for serious business.

Also, if you rely on someone else to provide your security, then you become permanently insecure.

A lot of the crappy software out there is crappy on purpose. Nobody leaves crappy software they are used to for crappy software that they have to learn over. Good software you don't even notice.

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