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Is it then a regression then from telephone and postal mail times ?

• teddyh 12y ago
  Yes, because with postal mail (a.k.a. snail mail) it was both technologically hard to open and scan mail without detection, and expensive to employ the number of people necessary to do it. With phones it was not hard at all technologically, but still expensive to employ people, and it was also rather expensive to record and store the data thus obtained. Today, the technology to scan everything and keep it forever is trivial, and storage is very cheap.
  • zanny 12y ago
    PGP is a thing, that makes your mail mathematically impossible to open by brute force. And you can self host your own XMPP servers or use any other peer to peer chat client like SIP.
    • teddyh 12y ago
      And encrypted snail mail has been a thing since ancient times. So what?
    • rosser 12y ago
      Call me when that's something my mom can do. She needs secure communications too.
      • zanny 12y ago
        Have her sign up to a secure XMPP provider and communicate over that. Or host her an XMPP server on your end she can use. It is as simple as register -> use an xmpp messenger -> secure communications.