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		_ofdw on Feb 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Freenode IRC is down It's not stupid nor is your analogy apt. All it takes is one user not using SSL or not verifying certs for your chats to be vulnerable to eavesdropping.

q3k on Feb 3, 2014 [–]

As well as all it takes is one gmail user for your email conversation to be vulnerable to eavesdropping.

Is this a reason to say SSL between your email client and server is useless?

_ofdw on Feb 3, 2014 | [–]

Straw man argument

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