Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source)
Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source)
Posted Nov 7, 2025 10:34 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341)In reply to: Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source) by dskoll
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Your mother? Probably nothing changes.... She keeps paying with her eyeballs and data. Others may choose to avoid that and pay actual money in some new communication system. That's how it already is today with email. The only thing that changes is that instead of layers of hacky side-protocols under the hood to try stop spam, you just have one clean micro-payment layer to make spam uneconomical. The business model around that, that affects UX, can vary in many ways.
You would not design a new messaging system in the way email is today.
Posted Nov 7, 2025 13:05 UTC (Fri)
by pizza (subscriber, #46)
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Of course not. You'd design it to be controlled by a single party (ie you), only accessible via official applications (backstopped by DRM), and explicitly monetized (everyone pays-to-use *and* forced unskippable advertisements) with all payments going solely to you.
(ie the wet dream of AT&T and what every big-tech's IM system aspires to be)
Posted Nov 7, 2025 13:16 UTC (Fri)
by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
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pizza is right. Anything designed today would benefit oligarchs and data brokers and oppress its "users". We should thank our lucky stars email became entrenched before the Internet enshittified.
Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source)
Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source)