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Email is a really dumb thing to put this to because 99.999% of the emails you receive will be sent by less paranoid people and 99.99% of the emails you send wil
by 3pt14159 9y ago
Email is a really dumb thing to put this to because 99.999% of the emails you receive will be sent by less paranoid people and 99.99% of the emails you send will be to less paranoid people.
Just get a pretty locked down Gmail account and use pen and paper or OTPs or GPG for things that actually need to be secure.
- fixermark 9y agoExactly. Concrete example: The only two sources of Clinton emails being made public were 1) Emails disclosed as part of a legal discovery process that compelled Clinton to hand over the emails herself. 2) Copies of her emails acquired from a correspondent with a much-less-secure configuration of their Gmail account than Clinton's configuration of her private server. Email is, by its nature, a distributed infosec problem.
- ubernostrum 9y agoFor the average person in 2017, the threat of a breach of their email account is not that the contents of emails they sent or received will be published and used for nefarious purposes. Some celebrities, government officials and business people need to worry about that, but they're a tiny subset of the general email-using population. The threat of a breach of the email account is that it's the key to everything else -- pretty much any other account, with any other service, is instantly accessible the moment you're in someone's email, because the email inbox is where credential-reset requests are sent.