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1. It removes the opportunity for free/cheap email providers to commercialize their users data. 2. It makes it difficult for corporate oversight of employee em
by josho 8y ago
1. It removes the opportunity for free/cheap email providers to commercialize their users data.
2. It makes it difficult for corporate oversight of employee emails.
3. Privacy is a differentiator only for a tiny fraction of the marketplace. So, there is very little profit incentive to invest the engineering resources to implement easy pub key into email.
- inetknght 8y ago1. is a good thing 2. sounds like a strawman; corporate oversight of employee emails is certainly possible and addressable 3. that's the real kicker
- josho 8y ago1. is a bad thing because it means gmail et al will never support an E2E standard, meaning the proposal is DOA. 2. How is it a straw man argument? I'm not saying it isn't possible, rather that it adds more complexity for little business value to companies. Don't get me wrong, I'd love better email security/privacy. I went so far as trying SMIME for a year. I just don't see this situation improving.