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>Private and Secure It’s as private as your email...which probably means not private. Like most people, I depend on an advertising company to host my emails.
by artfulhippo 7y ago
>Private and Secure
It’s as private as your email...which probably means not private.
Like most people, I depend on an advertising company to host my emails. But I wouldn’t share my private diary with them.
- kossnocorp 7y agoRight, I didn't think of users' email servers spying on people. But to be fair, there're privacy-focused services, so it's possible.
- 1stcity3rdcoast 7y agoGmail has an autocomplete function which means it’s inherently reading everyone’s email (for training).
- Legogris 7y agoFeature suggestions: PGP Self-hosting
- cosmojg 7y agoSolution: use one of the hundreds of alternatives to Gmail.
- eerrt 7y agolike Protonmail
- opmac 7y agoWhich has its own problems but that's another story.
- nravic 7y agoWhat are Protonmail's problems?
- newscracker 7y agoI'll cite one aspect of its design and implementation as a problem – it doesn't support standard protocols like IMAP unless you choose a paid plan. Even then, you have to use a "bridge application". On mobile, only the official app can access the mailbox. To sum it up, if you're on a free plan on ProtonMail, you cannot export your mails out (unless you do it by "printing" mails one by one). To contrast this, even "free" platforms like Gmail and Yahoo provide IMAP access to all accounts.
- Summershard 7y agoBut that's the point of ProtonMail. All your data is invisible to them. If you could use IMAP without a bridge app, which encrypts and decrypts all your mail data locally, guys at Proton could read your mails. Not necessarily because they would want to. That's just how email works.
- groovybits 7y agoI would wager any email provider would suffice for a simply diary, if thats how you want to keep it. I'm assuming you're speaking to higher-level issues, such as privacy or security?
- bad_user 7y agoYou can encrypt those emails with PGP, the best encryption there is. A good email client can also learn to automatically encrypt when you send to a specific email, so you can send to a specific alias (with a plus or subdomain aliasing scheme).
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoBut then will your diary service work right with it? Honestly, you should use a mail server that isn't from an ad company. And then if you also want to layer encryption on top, feel free. (Also, calling PGP "the best encryption there is" might be a bit of hyperbole.)
- bad_user 7y agoI don't use a mail server from an ad company. And the company's business model is absolutely irrelevant actually. You still need end to end encryption. > "But then will your diary service work right with it?" Yes, it's called an email archive. It's searchable too. All you need is an email client that supports PGP. I personally use Mailmate. And I've got email going back to 2004, while I no longer use any apps or online services from 2004 (most died).
- tptacek 7y ago"The best encryption there is"?