Re: ISPs offering ssl-encrypted e-mail?
* Bradley M Alexander
| I'll tell you why this happens. For the same reason that users tolerate
| crappy M$ operating systems that have swiss cheese security and no
| stability. They have been conditioned this way. Because they think that
| this is the way that its supposed to happen and there's nothing that can be
| done about it. Its not like this in other areas of life. If you were
| driving your new car, and at random intervals, you had to pull over, turn
| it off, wait and restart, just about every consumer would be down at the
| dealership jumping on somebody's desk.
Another reason is probably that you don't see the need for that
security, until somebody shows you how easy it is to read you mail,
passwords etc. And somebody does it to _all_ users.
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Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.
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