On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:56:51AM +0200, lee wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:08:47PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: > > > That may be because of how the internet started -- it was meant just for > > sharing information; when you don't care about who could read your data, > > there isn't too much reason to secure communication... it's just that at > > the start they didn't have a clue how much the use of internet would > > grow I guess > > Yeah, I can see that for older protocols, but are IM protocols that > old? I started using pgp at the beginning of the 1990ies or so, before > I had any internet access at all (but mail). >
Some are. Unix chat dates well back before then, and irc's been around for a very long time too. -- Mark Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
