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Too see how much our Government understands the problem, the Minister of Communication asked the "Correios" to build the secure email system, "Correios" is the

by nefasti 13y ago

Too see how much our Government understands the problem, the Minister of Communication asked the "Correios" to build the secure email system, "Correios" is the Brazilian equivalent of USPS. There are dozen more qualified departments to work on this, and the incredible idea is to build an encryption and certification for email text, they never heard of OpenPGP. It looks like he really thinks because it´s email(electronic mail) gasp the postal services should handle this.

AJ007 13y ago
Based on this translation -- "The executive secretary admitted that the cost of maintaining a service encrypted email is top. But pointed out that, similarly to what today are companies like Google and Facebook, the Post can sell advertising to fund it." Ads aren't worth much when you don't know who you are showing them to, or the context of where they are being shown. You might as well buy advertising on a billboard that is laying face down.
- bilbo0s 13y ago
  "Advertising" comprises many things. There are a lot of companies that would "advertise" in the context you describe. Think Coca-Cola or Pepsi. Not stating whether or not this is a good idea, but finding advertisers would not be much of a problem with such a system.
freehunter 13y ago
After reading Cuckoo's Egg, I was surprised to find out that the German Bundespost (German USPS) used to control their national networking infrastructure. Brazil's decision is not without precedent.
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- annnnd 13y ago
  There is a difference between networking infrastructure and e-mail services. I wouldn't call it a precedent as it is not similar enough.
d0100 13y ago
Correios already have a team that takes care of big databases and computer systems, how is it strange to ask a programmer to make yet another program?
- edcastro 13y ago
  Because there's a much larger and competent team that takes care of all other government IT business, it's called Serpro.

by nefasti 13y ago

AJ007 13y ago

Based on this translation -- "The executive secretary admitted that the cost of maintaining a service encrypted email is top. But pointed out that, similarly to what today are companies like Google and Facebook, the Post can sell advertising to fund it." Ads aren't worth much when you don't know who you are showing them to, or the context of where they are being shown. You might as well buy advertising on a billboard that is laying face down.

bilbo0s 13y ago
"Advertising" comprises many things. There are a lot of companies that would "advertise" in the context you describe. Think Coca-Cola or Pepsi. Not stating whether or not this is a good idea, but finding advertisers would not be much of a problem with such a system.

freehunter 13y ago

After reading Cuckoo's Egg, I was surprised to find out that the German Bundespost (German USPS) used to control their national networking infrastructure. Brazil's decision is not without precedent.

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annnnd 13y ago
There is a difference between networking infrastructure and e-mail services. I wouldn't call it a precedent as it is not similar enough.

d0100 13y ago

Correios already have a team that takes care of big databases and computer systems, how is it strange to ask a programmer to make yet another program?

edcastro 13y ago
Because there's a much larger and competent team that takes care of all other government IT business, it's called Serpro.