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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/10/2025 03:46, Henry Baker wrote:<span
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">Apple has positioned themselves as such a protector, but they haven't been doing such a great job when it comes to email programs.
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<p>We should recall that email was designed (or emerged) in the
terribly benign world of the 70s Internet. In those days it was
all hop-to-hop and everyone was part of a university or similar
somewhere in a close & documented graph. Anyone remember UUCP
email addressing?</p>
<p>Security wasn't built in to the Internet, nor email, it was left
as a later step. This was maybe considered reasonable as ISO's 7
layer model said it could be slotted into layer 5 if & when.</p>
<p>And sadly, it turned out that email was practically impossible to
secure, in large part because everyone's entitled to it, there is
no cost, and the momentum of unsecured users was too hard to fight
against. Oh well. So let's sacrifice the beast and move on to
better things - which is what the world has done. Now most or all
comms that need security are done another way.</p>
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