Re: best way to secure communication?
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:56:51AM +0200, lee wrote:
> 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).
>
Some are. Unix chat dates well back before then, and irc's been
around for a very long time too.
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Mark Kent
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