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If you want secure emails use GPG. Unlike slack, GPG is both open-source and offers government-level security. I don't think slack is more secure than GPG.
by tathougies 8y ago
If you want secure emails use GPG. Unlike slack, GPG is both open-source and offers government-level security. I don't think slack is more secure than GPG.
- spookthesunset 8y agoAnd how does that work for your average person using outlook / google for email?
- tathougies 8y agoThen build on top of email, instead of developing yet another 'secure' proprietary system.
- maw 8y agoIf that were viable people would already be doing it. It's not, and so very few people are. I wish this weren't the case but it is.
- closeparen 8y agoCompanies are generally at more risk from failure to produce message content in a lawsuit, regulatory action, HR investigation, etc. than from eavesdropping. "Secure" in a corporate setting means subject to IT's surveillance, filtering, and archiving. If anything, security's job is to make sure employees aren't using things like PGP, personal webmail, Facebook, etc. to evade corporate retention policies. Maybe mysterious quasi-state actors will steal your secrets and outcompete you decades from now, but they could probably do that anyway. The SEC will certainly fuck you up right now if you can't demonstrate adequate controls on regulated employees' communications.
- tathougies 8y agoI'm talking about personal e-mail. Still businesses can easily enforce retention policies with PGP by using a master key.