-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 07/05/14 10:51, carlo von lynX wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 10:39:33AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: >> Be careful about inferring 'will' from 'should'. ;-) I bet you a >> bitcoin we're both still using email this time next year. > > I don't own that much bitmoney, but saying that e-mail will be > obsolete doesn't mean it takes less than a year to get rid of it. > > I am saying we'll have something better soon, and then it depends > on how quickly people adopt it. This very mailing list may have > become very quiet next year... because we migrated to something > better.
If email will still be around next year (and in ten years) then improving the security of email isn't a wasted effort. The world is full of obsolete systems that we maintain and patch until we can finally get rid of them - Linux, representative democracy, TCP/IP, nation states... I *should* be using Qubes, but I still install security patches on my Linux box, and I'm grateful that someone wrote those patches. You spend a lot of energy criticising people for working to improve obsolete systems - I guess you think they should be working on replacement systems instead. But both are valuable. We need to improve email *and* replace it, because even if the whole world starts using Pond tomorrow, email (and HTTP, and all the other obsolete junk) will be around for a long time. Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJTag+sAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMtr8H/1VMFgpjVW+/x2Q2ox0Z0yEq 9J8KoqzAxrtoFK69wt87ensQ0TACpdTiRVaP2qg4IC7IUG0S2it54SMiZ2JKKZbB 7wyMPGpLnxVmuquGCrafujK36UhVWxeaKXKstiGV3Ruxqu0WdAV0Q+SMM1l5PV3P QrJ4ST8MrQawUj0yf+0vhbCI3nLgi9oYdoaFVGTulbbql/tn1Vg1MUcfSIRnQkE0 Bij/c/tIHjzMmZFfPzA8oUO0dIjTGTpqS3VENKI7S2nYkVElBXV83Lzdat53R34Q ebW7wruxPUyExkRaZOMLtd5EWgmJY2F5Z2YF8in7D/uBq5zZbmBfLkhXqM36YrE= =WHeh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
