I think you're both right. Email is subpar as a protocol for sending secure messages (what you said) and should therefore be abandoned as a protocol in favor of

I think you're both right. Email is subpar as a protocol for sending secure messages (what you said) and should therefore be abandoned as a protocol in favor of something better, and also many of the specific arguments made in the article are quite weak (what they said). E.g. PGP doesn't make dragnet surveillance harder?? Unless you assume that point-to-point encryption makes it entirely impossible (wrong), PGP clearly makes it much harder for anyone to read your message.