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By that logic shouldn't we try to encrypt SMS? Email as a protocol has huge security issues, and email as it is currently used honestly is NOT federated or dece

• Freak_NL 10y ago
  For personal use email is rarely self-hosted, but corporations, governments, and organisations often run their own email infrastructure. That effectively makes email a decentralized federated system. You might argue how a lot of email is either send to or send from Google, Apple, or Microsoft services, and that is thus somewhat centralized, but isn't that stretching the definition?
  • m3rc 10y ago
    Is talking about government organizations hosting their own email servers really a point in email's favor in 2017?
    • Freak_NL 10y ago
      It means email federation is alive and well.
    • detaro 10y ago
      Why would it be a point against it? I generally think my government being in control of its communication infrastructure is a good thing.