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having a phone number will go the way of the landline same with email addresses -- this is some combination of your identity and a license to spam you spam pr
by awinter-py 7y ago
having a phone number will go the way of the landline
same with email addresses -- this is some combination of your identity and a license to spam you
spam protection is the main feature of gmail because email wasn't designed with fraud in mind -- an email system rebuilt from the ground up for 2019 would be safe for medical information, receipts, not be the giant password reset security hole that email currently is, and not allow randos to spam you
every new product designed in this century needs prevent fraud by design (including spam)
- bvanderplaats 7y agoMy company recently switched to MSFT Teams, and the other day I was thinking how difficult it would be to get spam through teams. By design, only people part of our organization can communicate with each other. There (AFAIK) is no endpoint for my organizational teams account visible to other teams users outside my organization. For spam to occur, someone's account would need to be compromised (which would be found quickly) or a fake account somehow created by the org admin (which seems unlikely). With email, the IT department is commonly spoofed, or the president, HR, etc. Most people can spot the differences, but with teams they would virtually never get any fraudulent messages.
- awinter-py 7y agoYes, though internal spam is a thing too. Chat tools are the prime driver of it
- hellisothers 7y agoI suppose “social networks” are the replacement, you’re exchanging getting spammed by random actors you don’t know to a single actor (the social network).
- foobarian 7y agoAaaaand here we go reinventing the wheel of "trust graph." Key signing party anyone?
- JohnFen 7y agoSo then how would people reach me? Ignoring snail-mail, all means of reaching me involve either my phone number or email address.
- lmm 7y agoPerhaps you'd give them single-use invites, or invites that included some form of certification path? I've noticed that Discord makes me go out of my way to hand out a reusable/non-expiring invite URL instead of a 1-day use-up-to-10-times link; obviously Discord's implementation relies on their hosting all the servers, but one could imagine a cryptographic equivalent that worked in a federated protocol.