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Unencrypted email is not private, never has been, never will be. The real problem is handing over your digital identity to Google, not the content of emails.
by MrPatan 4y ago
Unencrypted email is not private, never has been, never will be.
The real problem is handing over your digital identity to Google, not the content of emails.
- Tepix 4y agoNowdays, even unencrypted email can be private, thanks to opportunistic encryption. Not when you're using Gmail of course.
- denton-scratch 4y agoOpportunistic encryption only encrypts mail transport between mail servers. Both the sending and receiving servers can read the plaintext.
- Tepix 4y agoAs long as both parties run their own mailservers, it's cool!
- brnt 4y agoWhat I dislike is that email addresses have become the primary key of online identity. Many services don't even have usernames anymore. I still think that government should furnish something like an online postal address. Protected with gov issued hardware keys (U2F?), white listing for recipients maybe. To be used only for gov business, banking, gas, water, etc. If those things are essential to life, and in turn depend heavily on email (here they do for sure), they should not be handled by fickle Big Tech.