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They did. I set the password, I know what it is, they needn't tell me. In plain text. In an e-mail.
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OH you mean someone (this intended recipient) forwarded you this/their email with password?
This was not obvious at all! Seeing the ... silly mistake now! ^_^
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What year is this, when people still accept unencrypted email?
It must be 25 years ago when I asked a certificate provider for a free X.509 email certificate. I received it as a small file I could doubleclick, and that was it: Encrypted email installed.
But I had only a small handful of friends who cared to do the same. Almost all of my contacts said: Encrypted email - what's that? I don't think I know how to do it.
Today it isn't much different. Except for one thing: A great share of users do not download their encrypted email to their PC, where it can be decrypted at the destination. Rather, their mail is kept at some remote web server, accessed through a web interface that accepts plaintext only; the browser is not capable of accessing my certificate for doing the decrypting.
I did keep my email certificate for a number of years. Then I switched to another ISP and mail service, which gave me a mail address with a domain part that differed from the mail server's domain. That lead to my mail client asking me every time I applied that certificate to confirm that the messages from that "strange" mail server was trustworthy. I asked the ISP for help with this; they ignored the request: Email is not one of our primary services. I could have gone to another email provider, a new email address again ... By that time, practically all my friends had abandoned encryption. It really wasn't worth the effort, with me as the only one caring for end-to-end mail encryption.
Why haven't we moved in the opposite direction? End-to-end email encryption was super-simple to set up. There were several providers of free certificates (as long as all it confirms is the validity of the email address, it doesn't require costly checks but can be automated). But appearently, nobody cares. Is it that satisfying to be able to complain about others sending us passords in plaintext email, when we could have offered the sender a safe way to send it, but we didn't care to?
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Your signature says it all.
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Right?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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you forgot 1138
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Because after all, People Are People. Far too many are busy seeking their own Personal Jesus.
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I'd love to watch these people read through any SPI documentation, their heads just might explode.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: I'd love to watch these people read through any SPI documentation, their heads just might explode.
FTFY 
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 Truth!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Will they demand that NBC cancel 'The Blacklist'?
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So blacklist and whitelist will become brownlist and pinklist. Problem solved. 
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I've actually read that multiple companies are replacing blacklist and whitelist with reject list and approve list or some such 
Brownlist may offend black people because they're actually brown (I can't believe no one noticed!) and pinklist is insulting to the LGBT+ community, duh.
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We really need a sarcasm icon.
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I wasn't even being sarcastic 
Or at least, I was, but it could quickly become the truth.
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No, I meant I was.
You see what I mean?
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We really need a sarcasm icon
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The interesting part is that blacklist comes from the old times (in Europe), when employers had a little black book where they listed unreliable workers that should not get employment.
Had nothing to do with skin colour. Still doesn't.
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I know, but we're heading towards the point where "black" is automatically associated with "black people".
If it then has a negative connotation, like blacklist, it's considered racist.
At least that's how some simpletons think.
I remember reading about some angry feminist who was enraged that the word "female" contains the word "male" and that this was just another example of the patriarchy.
Then some (male) linguist totally roasted her because the two words are unrelated
Perhaps we should teach etymology in schools so people know where some words come from
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Sander Rossel wrote: Perhaps we should teach etymology in schools so people know where some words come from
Yes.
Sander Rossel wrote: I know, but we're heading towards the point where "black" is automatically associated with "black people".
Even worse in Portuguese.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Perhaps we should teach etymology in schools so people know where some words come from
People already know how to Google, they are just really good at glossing over the results that don't fit their agenda.
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