http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3288271
Everyone agrees that e-mail is broken, and now some fixes are being proposed. The latest concept is a technical specification enabling e-mail recipients to verify sender identity, which then could be extended into a reputation report. Experts agree that e-mail identity is the requisite first step to reform. The pros and cons of this have been highlighted in this blog, because I feel this is no small issue in the way in which the IT environment is evolving.
Despite the eloquence and the genuine case that anonymity proponents have mustered in this debate, I still find myself, somewhat uncomfortably, under the tent of the identity brigade. In some sense, this demonstrates how central e-mail has become to the computing experience of most of us.
Posted by jho at December 16, 2003 02:55 PM