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Re: best way to secure communication?



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



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