I think you&#x27;re really missing the point here.<p>&gt; Moxie says that email is frozen, being why it is unencrypted, blaming the lack of progress on it being federated. But you know, I&#x27;m willing to bet that in 10 years from now WhatsApp and Slack will be both dead, just like Yahoo Messenger and ICQ before them, while email and IRC will still be around.<p>Yes, and email will still be unencrypted, while the WhatsApps and Slacks of the future will probably be encrypted end-to-end.<p>&gt; And I think that email is unbeatable, because it is federated, because it&#x27;s governed by standards and because in spite of all constraints, it&#x27;s quite adaptable, being the kind of platform supporting short term proprietary solutions because (and not in spite of) its client&#x2F;server decoupling.<p>It&#x27;s not adaptable enough to introduce meaningful encryption to it.