<![CDATA[Email is crazy]]>Email is crazy

Email is like those creaking old Terminators from the ’70s which continue to function without complaining. Designed for a world that doesn’t exist anymore, it has optional encryption, no built-in auth, three⁺ retrofitted security layers bolted on top, an unstandardized filtering layer and many more quirks. Yet billions of emails arrive correctly every single day.

Email is not elegant but nonetheless it

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From one of the comments: "Everyone with the technical skills and the budget has the moral duty of taking back control of at least one aspect of their digital lives, in my opinion." - 💯

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Predates almost public Internet, which itself predates Websites by about 5 years.

Security on the internet more than a login despite arpanet origin is an afterthought.
NTTP (used for Usenet)
FTP
Telnet
HTTP
None had more security than the login, sent unencrypted!
Even the the now broken SMB1 and Windows NT (token & hash system) had better security in 1993.
The Login on Windows 2.x, 3.x and Win9x / ME was only for network resources, simply hit cancel and you had full local access!

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