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This is true. I have heard security people argue that SMTP, POP and IMAP are 'legacy protocols' that must be ditched to better secure email.
by _wldu 5y ago
This is true. I have heard security people argue that SMTP, POP and IMAP are 'legacy protocols' that must be ditched to better secure email.
- jhgb 5y agoBread is legacy food. Beer is legacy drink. I feel like that about sums it up.
- Koshkin 5y agoThis sums up nothing. (You could go as far as saying that our own bodies are legacy systems. So what? What does that have to do with anything?)
- netr0ute 5y ago> What does that have to do with anything? It means that "legacy" is meaningless if it can be applied so so many other things.
- psd1 5y agoSemantics are contextual, and your legacy bread / legacy software parallel doesn't convince me. Is it a precise term? no, but most ppl here will have a good idea of what it means.
- bostik 5y agoLegacy is any code you wrote before lunch.
- paulryanrogers 5y agoIn their defense email is pretty inherently insecure with metadata and message subjects always leaking even when message bodies are encrypted. The fire and forget model is also a big contributor to spam. If email were invented today I imagine it would look more like an E2E system that put the storage burden on senders.
- networkimprov 5y agoBefore ditching SMTP/etc, we'd need something to replace them. TMTP (my work) is a candidate. More at https://mnmnotmail.org/ https://mnmnotmail.org/