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Re:Freenode IRC is down by na85 on Monday February 03, 2014 @02:38AM (#7169345)
It's not stupid nor is your analogy apt.

All it takes is one user not using SSL or not verifying certs for your chats to be vulnerable to eavesdropping.

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Re:Freenode IRC is down by q3k on Monday February 03, 2014 @02:47AM (#7169367)
As well as all it takes is one gmail user for your email conversation to be vulnerable to eavesdropping.

Is this a reason to say SSL between your email client and server is useless?

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Re:Freenode IRC is down by na85 on Monday February 03, 2014 @06:05PM (#7174197)
Straw man argument
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