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meaculpa2011

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21. I started using email in 1981...

Sat Oct 29, 2016, 08:20 AM

Oct 2016

with a Compuserve account and a 300 BAUD modem.

I've sent and received thousands of emails and file transfers and never had any worries about someone seeing what I had written.

Government officials dealing with sensitive material, though, is a much different story.

What's most disturbing about so much of the email traffic that's been released is the banality of it all. They sound like middle schoolers cutting each other up in the playground.

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the end of email [View all] tenaciousdem Oct 2016 OP

Email did not catch on with many businesses, one being the medical people. Jim Beard Oct 2016 #1

interesting tenaciousdem Oct 2016 #3

Odd...I get around 7000 a year on my hospital email. ileus Oct 2016 #22

But what are they about ? I'm guessing most are just things like JI7 Oct 2016 #24

i read an article a few years sgo LisaM Oct 2016 #2

Yep. Typewriters and paper documents are back in use dalton99 Oct 2016 #7

any guess to tenaciousdem Oct 2016 #8

probably onethatcares Oct 2016 #19

Not happening. Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #4

that is true tenaciousdem Oct 2016 #5

Probably more voice communication. Jim Beard Oct 2016 #11

From what little I've read about it, it sounds like Podesta in particular was super careless about Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #15

"It's in the mail" KentuckyWoman Oct 2016 #6

its called encryption pimpbot Oct 2016 #9

sloppy tenaciousdem Oct 2016 #13

I don't think it was a matter of not being encrypted, it was more like Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #16

wow tenaciousdem Oct 2016 #17

It's not so much sloppiness as it is users being (rightfully) disconnected from security concerns. randome Oct 2016 #20

Email is good enough Travis_0004 Oct 2016 #10

Can the average person do it and do they need it? Jim Beard Oct 2016 #12

probably not needed for the average joe pimpbot Oct 2016 #14

Two factor authentication is dead simple and eliminates this sort of thing Egnever Oct 2016 #23

I agree. kentuck Oct 2016 #18

I started using email in 1981... meaculpa2011 Oct 2016 #21

This all reminds me of Ken Star Jim Beard Oct 2016 #25

Carrier pigeons can be hacked too Sanity Claws Oct 2016 #26