Xplo Eristotle wrote:
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> And a newsreader, and a WYSIWYG HTML editor, and an IRC client, and a
> Jabber client, and an "internet platform", and a George Foreman Lean
> Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine, and an aquarium. I'm familiar with
It's not an aquarium on windows yet :p
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25369
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> To put it another way, as a thought experiment, consider: if the
> security were removed from email entirely, how many people would refuse
> to use Mozilla's email client for that reason alone?
>
>
There's no security in the email client atm. S/MIME will make its way
into Moz on a later date. PGP support is mentioned here:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22687
For day to day use encrypted email is an overkill because for most
people it's too much hassle to set up, although if encrypted email was
so easy to set up that people would use it by default then it'd increase
peoples privacy.
Too many people send passwords and other personal details through email
without considering the security risk.
--
David Hallowell
UKUUG Linux 2001 Conference - Manchester
http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2001/
