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Is this the longest time between request/bug and fix?
For example, bug 41929 [1] is only 6 months younger. Briefly, you cannot have two different IMAP accounts in Thunderbird that have the same username and host but different ports.
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If you believe in abolishing hierarchy and institutions where they have no legitimacy, _all_ you are left with is communication, community, and open standardization as practiced in anarchist bodies such as the IETF.
> anarchist bodies such as the IETF That's an incredibly... unconventional read on the IETF.
Edit: language fixes. English is not my language of choice for discussing things like this...
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I used to be involved in building and shipping research robots (from Canada) and I remember we ran into this a few times with a bog-standard industrial wifi radio that for some reason was under ITAR. Interestingly, the manufacturer of the radio was set up to ship it directly to our customer, we just couldn't integrate it into their robot and ship it from our facility. So they had to put on the radio themselves. The w…
Ah yes...the efficiencies never stop coming when you forced to skirt government mandates about tech they know almost nothing about. I have war stories for days about all times companies I worked for had to have customers pull DLLs from 3rd party sites in order to comply with completely political mandates.
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For those that don't click through, it repeats what is a fairly cogent argument. If cryptography is classified as a munition, then there should be legal room to argue we have the right to it as provided by the 2nd amendment.
Congrats, you don't get encrypted because you're not a member of a tightly regulated militia. Sarcasm aside, the only way to make sure people get encryption is to make it impossible to restrict the technology. That's how encryption ended up spreading. You don't put disruptive tech on every computer on the planet by waiting for permission.
I remember back in the 90s exchanging PGP keys with my roommate to exchange encrypted emails. It was supposed to be so easy. Just 12 simple steps. Every time.
at least you had a friend to email! I couldn't get any of my friends to do it. "Man we can encrypt our emails." "But why..." "It'd be cool" "This seems hard." "Come on, exchange keys with me." "I don't want to make one."
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I understand that PGP doesn't have to be used with email. That is why I haven't commented on PGP, I'm saying that I think encrypted email is a bad idea, regardless of whether you use PGP or something else. We're posting in a thread about Thunderbird, an e-mail client :) I agree that one great weakness of Signal is its centralization, and that decentralization is a great strength of email. For a decentralized encrypte…
For future reference, statements like this: > I used to love [A], but I now think [B] is a bad idea. will lead many people to think that you consider A and B to be essentially the same thing. In the specific case of PGP and encrypted email, this is a category error: you are implying (perhaps unintentionally) that PGP’s only use is for encrypted email.
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I used to be involved in building and shipping research robots (from Canada) and I remember we ran into this a few times with a bog-standard industrial wifi radio that for some reason was under ITAR. Interestingly, the manufacturer of the radio was set up to ship it directly to our customer, we just couldn't integrate it into their robot and ship it from our facility. So they had to put on the radio themselves. The w…
Ah yes...the efficiencies never stop coming when you forced to skirt government mandates about tech they know almost nothing about. I have war stories for days about all times companies I worked for had to have customers pull DLLs from 3rd party sites in order to comply with completely political mandates.
I remember back in the 90s exchanging PGP keys with my roommate to exchange encrypted emails. It was supposed to be so easy. Just 12 simple steps. Every time.
For reasons unclear to me Thunderbird chose not to go with something like autocrypt.org, but stick with standard PGP and implement parts of their attempt to simplify, which isn't nearly enough to get regular users on board, never mind implement things like forward security, which autocrypt does.
A missed chance from Mozilla, secure email would fit in well with their mission.
I used to love PGP, but I now think encrypted email is a bad idea. https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted.... Better to use a protocol designed with encryption in mind, like Signal, to get forward secrecy, avoid leaking metadata, and have encryption always on by default. UPDATE: I have been reminded that PGP does not have to be used with email. I meant to say that I used to love using PGP with em…