--- On Mon, 9/29/08, Jon Pruente jdpruente@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Oren Beck orenbeck@gmail.com wrote:
The only comment beyond my lead in for rethinking client/server security is an admonition of ethics.
If we lived in a world like RMS envisioned we'd need no passwords.
I like to think he was wrong on that. Passwords are like locks on doors, as the saying goes "they keep an honest person honest", even if a criminal can just break the door in. Locks don't just keep the baddies out, they help maintain a degree of expected privacy and security.
I've sometimes referred to ROT13 as the E-mail equivalent of a snail-mail envelope: its easy to "steam open", but it still takes a little effort to read the contents, so it offers a little privacy for the contents.