On 03/26/2015 02:39 AM, robert rottermann wrote:
Unlike with "real" goods, strongboxing emails can be done by using common tools and without real costs..
Precisely. It is the same economic difference bas exists for unsolicited mail between physical mail, the cost of the letter, printing, paper, envelope, stuffing and postage, >$1, probably >$2, vs e-mail, asymptotic zero per 100,000. The cost of TLS is a pull-down option in configuration. The cost of PGP encoding the message is downloading the plugin and 15 minutes setup & posting your public key to a known server. From then on its just flipping an option and entering a passphrase. Negligible compared to a physical strong box. Anything prefixed by "e-" has probably changed the whole economic model. To quote Peter Drucker from his article in "Wired" of 03-MAR-1998 "Current economics is merely refining the obsolete. Economic theory is still based on the scarcity axiom, which doesn't apply to information. When I sell you a phone, I no longer have it. When I sell information to you, I have more information by the very fact that you have it and I know you have it. That's not even true of money." -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org