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Point 1 is great, point 2 is disastrous. Yes, we need a new email protocol, it has to be simple, cryptographically sound, it must weed out the concept of spam (
by StreamBright 6y ago
Point 1 is great, point 2 is disastrous. Yes, we need a new email protocol, it has to be simple, cryptographically sound, it must weed out the concept of spam (there are great ideas on this subject, like the cost-based anti-spam systems[1]. We do not need more attack vectors like a JS based chart library. You can render charts as static images without running any code on the reader side. Some days, I wish there was a LaTex based email that did these.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost-based_anti-spam_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost-based_anti-spam_systems
- networkimprov 6y agoThe new user experience aspects are largely constructed with markdown extensions. There's nothing insecure about including JSON data for a chart/graph. It wouldn't support arbitrary JS (for heaven's sake :) More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804869#25807379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804869#25807379 (I'm the author :)