On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:08:47PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: > That may be because of how the internet started -- it was meant just for > sharing information; when you don't care about who could read your data, > there isn't too much reason to secure communication... it's just that at > the start they didn't have a clue how much the use of internet would > grow I guess
Yeah, I can see that for older protocols, but are IM protocols that old? I started using pgp at the beginning of the 1990ies or so, before I had any internet access at all (but mail). GH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]