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How difficult would this be? E.g. if some of us started contributing to a fund, how many dollars/hours of work would be required to add this upgrade? Ideally, it should be set up in such a way that any other client could add the same feature and the "public key available" and "automatically exchange keys" features would work across platforms. I think that this feature in Thunderbird would motivate competing platforms to add it. Once encryption reaches a critical mass, then spam should become much less of a problem (search for spam, cure, and encyrption on google for various discussions). I would contribute time or money -- the latter is probably more efficient in my case -- to this effort and I don't generally donate money to anything. --[[User:Ransage|Ransage]] 16:32, 7 October 2007 (PDT) | How difficult would this be? E.g. if some of us started contributing to a fund, how many dollars/hours of work would be required to add this upgrade? Ideally, it should be set up in such a way that any other client could add the same feature and the "public key available" and "automatically exchange keys" features would work across platforms. I think that this feature in Thunderbird would motivate competing platforms to add it. Once encryption reaches a critical mass, then spam should become much less of a problem (search for spam, cure, and encyrption on google for various discussions). I would contribute time or money -- the latter is probably more efficient in my case -- to this effort and I don't generally donate money to anything. --[[User:Ransage|Ransage]] 16:32, 7 October 2007 (PDT) | ||
I think this is truly long over due and needs to be implemented for several reasons. It just makes sense that you can view you bank data over an (SSL) secured connection and rest assured all data is encrypted, from start to finish. However, Email is nowhere near this private, powerful, or reliable. I think it should be. People get all sorts of frauds and scams sent via email, and one thing remains the same: Its from an unverifiable source. (its got to work pretty well, its got its own term: Phishing) People deserve better. A mechanism such as this that can prove an identity, and keep confidential information confidential tells its users that Email being sent [through thunderbird] is a better way to reclaim your inbox! There is no reason all Email be no different than a letter or phone call... people should be able to open an email and say "This really is my bank"... it should not be "I'm pretty sure this my bank" | |||
== RSS XML complete restore == | == RSS XML complete restore == | ||
Is it possible to completely restore the read/deleted threads from the original RSS/XML file? It would be great for testing for RSS developpers. I even tried to remove the subscription and renew it without success. | Is it possible to completely restore the read/deleted threads from the original RSS/XML file? It would be great for testing for RSS developpers. I even tried to remove the subscription and renew it without success. | ||