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The article argues that ignoring DNSSEC exposes users to man-in-the-middle attacks, using examples from email, Matrix, and XMPP, and draws a parallel to the historical resistance against HTTPS.
A retrospective blog post lamenting the decline of XMPP (Jabber) from its peak around 2008 when it was widely used and supported by major platforms like Google and Facebook, contrasting it with modern decentralized alternatives like Matrix. The author reflects on how XMPP was once accessible to mainstream users through clients like Pidgin and Trillian but has since been supplanted by proprietary walled-garden messaging apps.