Re:Encrypted email is still a pain
by e12e on Monday February 13, 2017 @06:04PM
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It's more that a private actor can exclude you from any network. Maybe WhatsApp blacklist you for "abuse". Maybe they're right. But even if you kill someone you're allowed to use the telephone network, and send or receive letters.
As long as the message silos aren't regulated as utilities, decentralised systems give us more of the freedoms.
It's pretty easy to run a separate dns system - you can even blend your own private "authorities" dns for new tlds with fall back to the centralised root servers.
Re:Encrypted email is still a pain
by Certhas on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @02:57AM
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That's a fair point actually. Does the fact that signal is open source and based on phone numbers change that though? Seems that as long as you have access to the phone network you have access to the signal network...
As long as the message silos aren't regulated as utilities, decentralised systems give us more of the freedoms.
It's pretty easy to run a separate dns system - you can even blend your own private "authorities" dns for new tlds with fall back to the centralised root servers.