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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by googlryas on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:56AM (#32604092)
Perhaps it would be easier to just own an IP address?
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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by 867-5309 on Friday August 26, 2022 @04:53AM (#32604822)
the certificates needed to secure email require a domain name
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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by account42 on Monday August 29, 2022 @03:43AM (#32635641)
There is no technical reason that certificates can't sign IP addresses - that is pure policy because IPs currently don't really represent an identity.
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