• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      Instead you just have to trust that anything you’re doing is actually with who they claim to be. No encryption means no identity or security guarantee.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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      In which case anyone who wants to can read the message traffic and make changes to it before passing it on to the receiver.

      No, you can’t conduct business this way.

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        Thats why it would have to be a closed system with controlled transmissions rather than omnidirectional radio transmissions.

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          You mean, for everyone to have their own infrastructure, many times what we have now, and still some jerk can literally wiretap like in old times?

          Or send messengers?