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Old 12-23-2020, 06:17 PM   #16
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That said, I see that there's a problem that cries for a solution.
Email is quite old and wasn't build with security in mind, and any security features nowadays are mostly addons and patchwork.
 
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Email is quite old and wasn't build with security in mind, and any security features nowadays are mostly addons and patchwork.
The same could be said for the internet and WWW in general. Or even computers and their operating systems.
Could! Whether that's actually so is another matter, but there's no point in singling Email out like this.
 
  


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