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And email is under constant attack. Especially corporate/business email, but personal accounts are now targets as well. Basically anyone with a bank/ebay/paypal
by w8rbt 12y ago
And email is under constant attack. Especially corporate/business email, but personal accounts are now targets as well. Basically anyone with a bank/ebay/paypal account is a target if they have an email address.
Spam, malware and phishing are huge problems with email. I doubt it will exist forever in its current form. I expect more and more restrictions (on sending and receiving) and more and more walled gardens as corporations and people attempt to better defend themselves.
- pjc50 12y agoThis is indeed why people retreat to the safety of "platforms". It's Bruce Schneier's "feudalism" argument: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.ht... IMO the theoretically best way out of this is the user-owned cooperative, but there's very little traction for that.
- icebraining 12y agoMeh, I don't trust a large "user-owned cooperative" much more than I trust Google. Then incentives of the owners may be more aligned, but the incentives of the people who actually run it aren't. For an example, see the collapse of the Spanish banking system, much of which was composed of mutual banks. I'd trust a small cooperative, but then you still have the problem of federating between those, which brings you back to square one.
- coolguy43 12y agoThat is true. I learn spanish on skype free at http://preply.com/en/spanish-by-skype http://preply.com/en/spanish-by-skype and I always worry about email hacking. especially my accounts that I use are there.