Monday
Oct202008
Speed -- It's not always the best.
Monday, October 20, 2008 at 11:15AM
I chose my new design for the site and I'm very happy with it. It took a bit of poking, prodding and modifications but it now looks fine in IE, Firefox and Safari/Chrome and I owe all the thanks to you, the readers. I'm constantly amazed at how quickly the internet moves -- and they're quality movements. Within only a few minutes of posting to my blog and sending out a tweet on Twitter, I got response, after response, after response. I didn't need to put together a grand 'ol survey and get a legal department involved in what I can and can't ask you. I simply put my thoughts down to virtual pen and paper and voila, a masterpiece (or at least a new blog design) was chosen in mere minutes.
Today we've got some of the fastest communication methods available to us. One-to-one conversations via cell phone or IM are great for individual conversations, and one-to-many conversations can be held on messages boards and FriendFeed to share with the world. I think it's great that we can communicate at the speed of light but there is a loss of privacy that comes with the advantage of speed. That's why there are companies today that are providing new methods of communicating that also cover privacy and security.
Sites like OtherInbox let you stay anonymous (and cut down on spam) behind the mask you call an email address and tools like PGP allow for encrypted communications between parties that need to keep their secrets, secret. One of the largest challenges that all of these services will have to overcome is speed. It takes a bit of setup to get PGP running properly and for OtherInbox, you need to go through all of your accounts and change your email address to an OtherInbox address. These are barriers to entry that these organizations and others are successfully breaking through. OtherInbox is working on a way to change your email addresses automatically and companies like Passpack are taking public-private keys and making the process of sending secure messages simple.
All of these organizations have a lot of work ahead of them but they're all well on their way to making security just as important as speed.
Today we've got some of the fastest communication methods available to us. One-to-one conversations via cell phone or IM are great for individual conversations, and one-to-many conversations can be held on messages boards and FriendFeed to share with the world. I think it's great that we can communicate at the speed of light but there is a loss of privacy that comes with the advantage of speed. That's why there are companies today that are providing new methods of communicating that also cover privacy and security.
Sites like OtherInbox let you stay anonymous (and cut down on spam) behind the mask you call an email address and tools like PGP allow for encrypted communications between parties that need to keep their secrets, secret. One of the largest challenges that all of these services will have to overcome is speed. It takes a bit of setup to get PGP running properly and for OtherInbox, you need to go through all of your accounts and change your email address to an OtherInbox address. These are barriers to entry that these organizations and others are successfully breaking through. OtherInbox is working on a way to change your email addresses automatically and companies like Passpack are taking public-private keys and making the process of sending secure messages simple.
All of these organizations have a lot of work ahead of them but they're all well on their way to making security just as important as speed.
Reader Comments (1)
Speed. No, not the pill kind, the web kind. http://bit.ly/1kf71W