Re: Ideas on solving the file transfer problem

Robert Wessel wrote:

But the entire Internet is a middleman and a security threat.

This is true. Yet, there is a considerable difference between having our
traffic sniffed and simply handling our data to any mysterious third-party,
inadvertently or not. After all, just because we rely on a postal service
to exchange letters with someone it doesn't mean it is a good idea to send
them to some random person in the country that promissed to resend them to
our intended destination.

This becomes even less of a good idea if one of the demands put in place by
that middleman is that we grant them the right to snoop our mail as he sees
fit and even copy it just for kicks. If it is quite possible to simply post
our mailing directly to our intended destination then why should we even
bother with this abuse?


Rui Maciel
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