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Few random notes from my heart: - it's about time people rediscover that emails are not webmails, even if except for few "geeky" modern MUA the real developmen
by kkfx 5y ago
Few random notes from my heart:
- it's about time people rediscover that emails are not webmails, even if except for few "geeky" modern MUA the real development of MUA is stuck at '90s level emails can and should be perfectly locally synced, accessed, sent and used in the more broad sense;
- I do not care about "secrecy" of my mails simply because I do not mail myself normally but third parties, since I have no control on them, no knowledge of their systems I can only assume that my messages will be public anyway. Yes, as many I have few friends with GNUPG keys, cross-signed in various occasions etc, but that's just "for fun", not for real usage simply because if GNUGP/PGP became a widespread habits anyone took it's almost useless: I do not have to discuss anything really secret via mail with some friends. At maximum I might have to privately contact third parties signaling a vulnerability, but in most cases those parties do not have a public key either...
- even if we arrive en masse to local/classic mail usage, with IMAP sync-ed maildirs, locally indexed, locally used etc, encryption can be useful ONLY if the system it live on can be trusted. Using a "safe" system on a proprietary OS on top of proprietary hw is not much different than mounting a super-strong door on a very fragile wall, a thief just need to detach the door from the wall without really facing it.