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“But surely you aren’t on the internet with System 6? Come to think of it, why would anyone use System 6 today. I switched to a Mac in 1994 and I never even saw System 6. I still keep an OS 9.2.2 Mac around, but System 6? Why? Do you really actually use it on a regular basis? What the heck for?” — In reference to someone asking for help with software on a forum that is still using Macintosh System 6 http://ettoresoftware.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=843caa1dac5c3911f3b4aeee3328e68b&topic=237.0
“This is merely lack of understanding what Facebook really is, and, more importantly, how its privacy settings work. These folks should not have trashed this lady’s house, of course, but posting photos of it for everyone to see is obviously not a very smart thing to do, akin to slapping them onto a wall on the street.” — Mashable
So I saw this post today, which talks about a Web base email encryption service called Send..
Now I’ve always hated people who think they’re getting secure email by using https for webmail or SSL over SMTP, because really this only encrypts the data to your email provider, not through the rest of it’s travels across the Internet to the reciever.
Most people probably should give up on the idea of “secure” email and just not put anything sensitive in email. But if you do or need to one should use something like OpenPGP to encrypt your message, and use a Desktop email client (like Mail.app or Thunderbird) and use SSL with SMTP.
But really doing that is often more complicated than most people will do. So in response comes this company Send. You type your message in their form and specify your email address the receivers email address, and submit the form (via https of course). The receiver will then get an email with an encrypted attachment they can decrypt at the Send site.
Of course this seems easier then using something like PGP, but you still of course have to visit this site to view the message. Second, it assumes you trust Send with this sensitive email. If you really have something so sensitive you don’t want anyone reading it why on earth would you trust it to some third party?
So my final analysis stays the same: Either don’t use email for “secure” communication or do it right with real desktop/local based encryption.
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Martin Fowler: “I have noticed that that ruby community is much nicer than most on-line communities I’ve seen.”
Zed Shaw: “I’ve pulled battered women out of abusive relationships. Helped kids who were being beaten by bullies. I got no problem stepping up and protecting the weaker ones in our world.”
It’s like Jesus. Except Jesus never had the forthrightness and temerity to actually kick a guy in the jugular if he had to.
Zed is Gandhi. Zed is Che Guevara. And Zed is Morpheus. But, also, Zed is Daniel Larusso. Immediately following that, he’s Slim Shady. Ergo, Zed is Hannah Montana.
” — why the lucky stiff on hackety.org
“Sitting for my 12th straight hour in a hospital waiting for the wife to download the latest tricycle motor…” — Leigh McMullen on Cult of Mac
“If we owned a goat we wouldn’t need to compost!” — Stevi
“is it just me, or does mobileme suck donkey balls? :(” — CrimsonScythe in TextMate IRC channel