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This is why you always encrypt on your machine not your email service. TBH I don't get why people get excited about things like Lavabit. You shouldn't be relyin
by satysin 10y ago
This is why you always encrypt on your machine not your email service. TBH I don't get why people get excited about things like Lavabit. You shouldn't be relying on one particular email service for security when email is not secure by design. Secure your content properly and then it shouldn't really matter what email service you use.
- mistaken 10y agoI agree with you, but sadly things like PGP are not universally adopted and can be a PITA to explain to someone not technically inclined. So it all boils down to the lack of standardized an universal encryption in e-mail.
- nilved 10y agoThere is a standard, and the fact that it's not universally adopted is more of a social problem than technical.
- geocar 10y agoThen sadly you don't have security. Understanding the threat model is fundamental: If you don't know what this protects against, it might as well protect against nothing at all; My ISP received my emails in plaintext, so I have to assume that they've got a plaintext backup of those emails.