[185861] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNSSEC and ISPs faking DNS responses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Nov 14 19:53:35 2015
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From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:49:51 -0800
To: Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> And it may only take a secondary use case to reach critical mass. =
People I
> know who use WhatsApp seem to have started using it to avoid per-text
> charges, not to get end-to-end encrypted messaging. But now, even if
> Facebook's estimate [2] of 450 million WhatsApp users is 90% inflated,
> there are 45 million people using encrypted texting, which I would not =
have
> predicted.
I think the number is much higher than that due to Messsages+iCloud =
usage
by iPhone and other Apple products also constituting end-to-end =
encrypted
text.
Yep=E2=80=A6 Just a few years ago, nobody cared about end-to-end =
encrypted text,
today, still most people don=E2=80=99t know or care what it is, but I =
bet there are enough
people using it without even realizing to constitute =E2=80=9Cmost=E2=80=9D=
or something very
close to it. (Between Skype, WhatsApp, Messages/iMessage, and others).
Owen
