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For better security, maybe it's time to abandon e-mail?

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Renegade:
Ick... IoT is going to be a dystopian nightmare. Has good applications? Sure? Has bad applications? Yup - and they're going to be at the forefront of reality. :(


In other news, Phil, Jon, Mike, and Ladar:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/lavabit-founder-wants-to-make-dark-e-mail-secure-by-default/

Ladar Levison is probably most well-known to Ars readers as the founder of the secure e-mail service Lavabit, which he shut down in mid-2013 in an effort to avoid being forced to comply with a US government demand to turn over users’ e-mails. But his latest project is a lot grander in scope than a single hosted e-mail service: Levison is attempting, with the aid of some fellow crypto-minded developers, to change e-mail at large and build encryption into its fundamental nature.

As one of the members of the Darkmail Technical Alliance, Levison—along with Jon Callas, Mike Janke, and PGP designer Phil Zimmermann—is working on a project collectively referred to as DIME, the Dark Internet Mail Environment. DIME will eventually take the form of a drop-in replacement for existing e-mail servers that will be able to use DMTP (the Dark Mail Transfer Protocol) and DMAP (Dark Mail Access Protocol) to encrypt e-mails by default.
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More at the link.

http://darkmail.info

Best of wishes to them with that.

Shades:
Looks like we need to look for some obituaries soon... :(

TaoPhoenix:
Internet of Things makes me think of and want to write a couple stories about a "sideways singularity" - not that any one bot is "smarter" than people, but *everything* is a quarter as smart as an "average" person in a lopsided computer way.

So we'll treat it as just fine and ho-hum that my apartment plays a mean game of chess, manages my music and suggests new songs once in a while, has the hots for Stephen's garden shed, and is an active member of a charity that keeps up with pen pal printers in Ghana.

:tellme:   8)

40hz:
IoT is going to be a dystopian nightmare.
-Renegade (January 06, 2015, 05:52 PM)
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Yes.  :(

Renegade:
Looks like we need to look for some obituaries soon... :(
-Shades (January 06, 2015, 07:22 PM)
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Could be. But they'll just be accidents, like straight-laced Michael Hastings -- who didn't drink, do drugs or jaywalk, but one day decided on a nice high-speed collision with a tree - and then a couple months later hackers demonstrated how to remote control cars like Mike's, or suicides, like Gary Webb -- who shot himself in the head - twice.

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