[ih] ARPANET pioneer Jack Haverty says the internet was never finished

[Dave Crocker]

On 3/4/2022 7:09 AM, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history wrote:
> despite secure mail being built into most clients these days.)


Except that it does not work at scale, whereas the walled ones do. 
There is no existence proof for meaningful, end-user usable security at 
scale for email.(*)  Cert management and end-user UX design appear to be 
the major barriers.

Truly distributdc admin and ops is much, much harder than centralized.

d/

(*) No doubt some will argue that server credentials with TLS is an 
exception, except that isn't and end-user function; end users aren't 
part of any meaningful security detection or enforcement activity, lock 
icons notwithstanding

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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