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I wouldn't get too grandiose about saying the institutions are broken. It's just email, why not consider it like postal mail? Definitely not good, definitely ne
by cmurf 9y ago
I wouldn't get too grandiose about saying the institutions are broken. It's just email, why not consider it like postal mail? Definitely not good, definitely needs to be fixed, but also definitely does not mean the legislature entirely is not secured or that institutions are all broken.
- anigbrowl 9y agoIt's just email How is that not critical infrastructure given legislators' need for secure and accessible communications?
- OJFord 9y agoIt demonstrably doesn't fulfil that need; GP's point, I think, is that postal mail has (perhaps more obvious, especially outside HN) vulnerabilities that were coped with for millennia.
- cmurf 9y agoIt is critical infrastructure. There are two parts: a.) mimic the thing our predecessors created: postal mail was so important that they had a person on a steed ride across barren land for days to deliver a message; b.) how do we adapte the modern equivalent. It's not so hideous for someone to make a copy of the payload on the horse, is it? It's not good to copy it. But it's much worse if the original is compromised: faked message or faked originator or destroyed.