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Maybe Johnny doesn't have a need to encrypt. The post card in India was just a card with message written on both sides, fully visible in plain text. It's very c
by zkmon 11mo ago
Maybe Johnny doesn't have a need to encrypt. The post card in India was just a card with message written on both sides, fully visible in plain text. It's very common that a postman would read out the letter to recipients sometimes, when they deliver it. Privacy is not an universal need.
Poor are those people who are forced to hide their message in encrypted formats,
- dghlsakjg 11mo agoNobody expects privacy when they send a postcard. Most people keep their emails behind a password for a reason...
- zkmon 11mo agoThe point is, why not let people to have freedom of not having to encrypt? And why such freedom is considered as poor? This is like forcing everyone to have a smart phone, car, passport, zillions of IDs, internet profiles and calling their shackled life as rich. The other day someone was shocked to see that I don't have FB and instagram accounts. When did people lose their freedom not have social media accounts?
- viraptor 11mo agoBecause if the default is unencrypted, you'll accidentally send secrets in plaintext one day. And if the default is encrypted and works well - why would you ever take time to explicitly disable that? What's the situation where you want to say "just in case someone intercepts this message, I want them to be able to read it"?
- sam_lowry_ 11mo agoEncrypted communication has lots of practical drawbacks. For me email is just fine the way it is. Deliverability could be better and Google/Microsoft duopoly is a problem but that's it. Stop reinventing the wheel.