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The indictment talked mostly about using Signal so the comments here making fun of using email seem unfair.
by eli 8y ago
The indictment talked mostly about using Signal so the comments here making fun of using email seem unfair.
- tptacek 8y agoIf, as seems likely, the messages were revealed because they weren't auto-deleted, then the flak email takes is especially well deserved. People are bad at deleting IM messages (even with apps like Signal that will auto-delete them if you ask). But scrubbing an email conversation is actually challenging, and people are notoriously bad at it. Email gets archived, and email replies and threads repeatedly quote and repeat fragments of the conversation; we've all read email "discussions" that were a single message with a long quote history in it.
- statictype 8y ago>we've all read email "discussions" that were a single message with a long quote history in it. Those emails are notorious for leaking information - especially when you loop someone external in and forget to scrub the long 3 month-long trail at the bottom.