You know, even if it does little to solve the problem, I think one vendor throwing a solution out there, incomplete though it may be, might be enough to get more industry minds thinking about the problem. You do have a good point, though, regarding the risks inherent in a false sense of security, and that’s possibly a sufficient argument against it. Personally I’m planning on tracking where this concept goes and producing a test feed to play with.

Yeah, I’ve been pretty blog-lazy recently - letting del.icio.us do all my blogging for me. Not very high-quality content, that ;).

Nice to see your blog again btw. I lost you for a long time.

Of course we could use https which would protect against sniffing and in combination with http authentication would conceivably limit access to the intended recipient, but once the content has been crawled it would be easily accessible.

We could also encrypt the content itself, but it doesn’t seem like decryption is a commonly available option in aggregators. I’d be happy to hear anything to the contrary.