Re: The (Letter-) Post Office's last stand ... in Florida(WSJ)

2012-03-30 Thread John Young
The postal system remains the most secure public communication system for all its faults and invasive letter opening and craven cooperation with official spies and their corporate cohorts. All digital comsec is faulty -- by design so its designers say to aid sysadministration and security/privacy

The (Letter-) Post Office's last stand ... in Florida (WSJ)

2012-03-30 Thread Patrice Riemens
Back in the late 90s I wrote a piece praising the then almost defunct (and by now dead and burried?) telegraph system (*). Looks like the letter post is headed the same way, as the digital empire is conquering the whole communication realm. The whole communication realm? No, in Florida a small vil