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> Ordinary people don’t exchange email messages that any powerful adversary would bother to read Do you have glasses? - Could've gotten you killed under a diff

> Ordinary people don’t exchange email messages that any powerful adversary would bother to read Do you have glasses? - Could've gotten you killed under a different regime in a different time. Do you own foreign books? - Could've gotten you killed under a different regime in a different time. Do you have a mental disorder? - Could've gotten you killed under a different regime in a different time. Is your religion not the majority in your country? - ... Now consider the fact that regimes change. How uninteresting are your emails?

posterboy 5y ago
> Do you have glasses? - Could've gotten you killed under a different regime in a different time. Really, where then? Suppose today it's opposite: Eye Sight will detoriate when not wearing proscription glasses, which gives actual minus points on sight and maybe three pedestrian red lights worth in negative social credit.
- rsync 5y ago
  During the Cambodia genocide[1]: "... people who were stereotypically thought of as having intellectual qualities, such as wearing glasses or speaking multiple languages, were executed out of fear that they would rebel against the Khmer Rouge." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide
fguerraz 5y ago
And that is exactly the point made in that article. If what you put in that email can get you killed, then don't put it in an email, even encrypted. There are just too many ways things can go wrong, and of course they will go wrong at some point. If you need confidentiality you need, at the minimum, disappearing messages, and for that to be the case all the way, you can't rely on decentralisation systems with various implementations. Sorry for interoperable decentralised lovers, that includes myself, but you need control over the whole chain. And email is just the opposite of this.

posterboy 5y ago

> Do you have glasses? - Could've gotten you killed under a different regime in a different time. Really, where then? Suppose today it's opposite: Eye Sight will detoriate when not wearing proscription glasses, which gives actual minus points on sight and maybe three pedestrian red lights worth in negative social credit.

rsync 5y ago
During the Cambodia genocide[1]: "... people who were stereotypically thought of as having intellectual qualities, such as wearing glasses or speaking multiple languages, were executed out of fear that they would rebel against the Khmer Rouge." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide

fguerraz 5y ago

And that is exactly the point made in that article. If what you put in that email can get you killed, then don't put it in an email, even encrypted. There are just too many ways things can go wrong, and of course they will go wrong at some point. If you need confidentiality you need, at the minimum, disappearing messages, and for that to be the case all the way, you can't rely on decentralisation systems with various implementations. Sorry for interoperable decentralised lovers, that includes myself, but you need control over the whole chain. And email is just the opposite of this.