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0 pointsdboreham8y ago0 comments

Hmm. I can just about remember Jim Barksdale personally telling every employee that the new E2E encryption feature (PEM probably?) in Messenger had to be dog food tested. In 1997.

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WalterBright8y ago

Unencrypted email is like mailing all your correspondence on postcards.

carussell8y ago

The Thunderbird codebase has nothing to do with the Netscape codebase you're referring to.

dborehamOP8y ago

Interesting. Are you sure? I didn't remember a big re-write ever happening, and after poking around in the current codebase for a while I see lots of old code and familiar names. Are you referring to just the UI? The address book code (the part I had something to do with back then) looks very similar.

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