Why Security Experts Are Using an Ancient Email Format in 2015

The mutt client. Image: Ethan Schoonover A quarter of a century ago, checking your email meant logging onto a mainframe and using a command-line email program like elm or pine. Today, many security experts continue to use and recommend mutt, elm's bastard love child. Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, confirmed that he is an "unhappy user of mutt." "Just because I use mutt doesn't mean I enjoy it," he wrote in an email. "I hate it. ...