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  • If someone I don’t like is allowed to go somewhere I don’t want them to go, they could start killing people at any moment.

    {insert skinner from ratatouille reading faster}

    every single person {…} that would want to cross north of Mexico is a gang-affiliated serial killer

    {same animation but backwards}

    Good job with the satire, almost got me there.




  • Right. A user from another server sends you mail. The mail is unencrypted on their side because they don’t know your key yet, or they don’t know how to use OpenPGP, or it’s automated.

    Servers talk SMTP between each other, not just a client sending mail.

    < 220 mail.mailbox.org EpicServerSoftware7000
    > HELO mail.riseup.net
    < 250 mail.riseup.net Service ready for new user
    > MAIL FROM:<coolskeleton98@riseup.net>
    < 250 Requested mail action okay, completed
    > RCPT TO:<chud@mailbox.org>
    < 250 Requested mail action okay, completed
    > DATA
    < 354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
    > From: "CoolSkeleton98" <coolskeleton98@riseup.net>
    > To: chud@mailbox.org
    > Subject: Test Message
    >
    > Hey, this is a test message!
    > .
    >
    < 250 Requested mail action okay, completed
    > QUIT
    < 221 mail.riseup.net Service closing transmission channel
    

    The round trip time in this protocol is fucking insane, but that’s what the people in the year 1980 thought of. They never thought this would be used outside of universities.

    Anyways, inevitably, mail.mailbox.org gets the message, unencrypted. It can encrypt it later. Though I don’t see how this is any safer than just getting the mail out with POP3.