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I submit, "Envelope." It's a good analogy, since now we're essentially sending all of our email on postcards.
by redblacktree 13y ago
I submit, "Envelope." It's a good analogy, since now we're essentially sending all of our email on postcards.
- slig 13y agoBut Envelopes leak metadata as well.
- bediger4000 13y agoThe NSA gets "mail covers" on every piece of US Postal Service mail: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai... the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States
- ape4 13y agoWow, that's a new one to me. We really have to defund the NSA.
- MiguelHudnandez 13y agoAn envelope is a good analogy for the 2.0 method described in the article. Contents are more secure but metadata is not.
- peatmoss 13y agoI'd posit that the French already have our backs. A few years ago, the official body that governs standardized French attempted to wean French-speaking people from the borrowed English terminology. Et voila! "Courriel," a portmanteau of courrier and electronique was pilfered from the Quebecois for the benefit of francophones everywhere. Sadly however, if Google Translate is any indicator, then "courriel" never made the leap from official to commonplace. Now, the electronic part is a given. But what about the courier part? Here's what Wikipedia says: > Couriers are distinguished from ordinary mail services by features such as speed, security, tracking, signature, specialization and individualization of express services, and swift delivery times, which are optional for most everyday mail services. As a premium service, couriers are usually more expensive than standard mail services, and their use is typically restricted to packages where one or more of these features are considered important enough to warrant the cost. Speed, security, individualization, premium? Those all sound like adjectives that I like! Let's do the L'Académie française a solid. Let's adopt Courriel and apply the label only to our fast, secure, individualized, premium electronic communiques.
- bkirwi 13y agoIf you're curious: courriel has become the standard term in Quebec, where adopting English terminology is a little bit more culturally / politically sensitive.