The three main strategies for securing email are TLS (which is opportunistic, and not end-to-end); PGP (impractical for institutional deployment; ask me how I know!) and S/MIME (which I'm guessing doesn't federate well).

The funny thing is: I suspect the policies are all based on the (no longer correct) notion that fax goes over the public telephone system, and not the Internet.

Utterly bizarre — a legacy technology, long outdated, but remaining in use because of policies (mostly around security) and lack of a viable alternative (email with end-to-end encryption).

I came here to say it. It had to be said.

One difference between this and shooting a CEO on a NYC sidewalk is that the former is murder on a mass scale.

A second difference is that we chose as a society to prosecute one while excusing the other as an acceptable human sacrifice to capitalism, which is horrific. WTF is wrong with us?

Even setting all the other excellent arguments against cryptocurrency aside:

Why would you choose a payment method that takes 10 minutes to clear when purchasing a hot sandwich? 🙄

No, we are working exactly as designed and intended.