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> The basis of old internet protocols are simple, open and powerful > Email, IRC, HTML, FTP These protocols are anything but simple. “Be liberal in what you a
by minitech 8y ago
> The basis of old internet protocols are simple, open and powerful
> Email, IRC, HTML, FTP
These protocols are anything but simple. “Be liberal in what you accept” was a huge mistake we’re still paying for. E-mail effectively can’t be made private. There’s lots of room for improvement in open protocols. (Start by not making them text-based, please.)
- u801e 8y ago> E-mail effectively can’t be made private. It definitely can be both in transit and when stored.
- minitech 8y agoIf you run your own mail server and everyone who sends you mail makes a direct encrypted connection to it, sure. That’s not a solution for most people.
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- walshemj 8y agoText has a lot of advantages - I know as I had to debug OSI binary protocols - You had to dump it out to a textual representation. unless you had spent years and could read the protocol in its binary form