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It's not widely practiced because it makes for a poor user experience in most cases - what happens when a user forgets their secret? Either they can never acces
by patmcc 13y ago
It's not widely practiced because it makes for a poor user experience in most cases - what happens when a user forgets their secret? Either they can never access their email account again, or at least they can never read their old emails. Besides that, you also lose the ability to do much of anything on the server - so super-fast search ala gmail is out.
Most users will choose a provider that has good protection against illegal attacks (like crackers), and little protection against legal attacks (like warrants) because those are the threats they see themselves facing.
- bigiain 13y ago" … because those are the threats they see themselves facing." Or perhaps "because those were the threats they saw themselves facing before Snowden's revelations"
- Zigurd 13y ago> It's not widely practiced because it makes for a poor user experience in most cases Skype seemed to work just fine that way until it was captured and neutered.
- judk 13y agoSkype does not provide the same feature set as Gmail account with to searchable archives