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Great article! Can you say exactly why Signal is more secure than email in this context?

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• idlewords 7y ago
  Signal is end-to-end encrypted, so your message is stored only on your device and the recipient's. If you want, you can have it auto-delete after a configurable period of time. Email wanders across the Internet and is stored on multiple servers by design. It can be tampered with or spoofed in ways that Signal messages can't, and your email account can potentially be broken into by an adversary.
  • rediguanayum 7y ago
    Just wanted to point out that Gmail has a Confidential Mode that can prevent forwarding, auto-deletes and allows the sender to control access to a sent email including removing access. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7674059?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7674059?co=GENIE.Plat... Understood that Signal has other useful security properties but this is useful for folks that use email. Disclaimer: I work at Google.
    • bo1024 7y ago
      (Sorry I saw this a few days late.) I think it's very misleading to call this "confidential mode for email". It's just putting the message on a webpage and sending the person a link to authorize access to the page, right? (And maybe messing with the gmail interface to hide that this is happening.) It's a really different concept altogether than email. If I understand right, it's basically like creating a google doc and sharing it with only certain recipients (and ability to revoke later).