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A few decades back, a lot of computer use was emails. And it was stored on someone else's servers - with everyone from server operators along the route, to the
by jeswin 5mo ago
A few decades back, a lot of computer use was emails. And it was stored on someone else's servers - with everyone from server operators along the route, to the government potentially having access to it. Even HTTPS is a relatively recent thing.
I guess what I'm saying is - we've always had this problem.
- MaxfordAndSons 5mo agoYea there have always been gaps in privacy, but nowadays it's several orders of magnitude easier for corporations to exploit that private data at scale.
- skydhash 5mo agoSnail mail is also not secure and can be tampered with. I don’t mind someone hosting my mail. But I do mind Google doing it (based on their behavior).
- kjs3 5mo agoAs an email admin a few decades back, there's just a tiny bit of difference between "my corp or school has a mail server and holds my email and an admin could look at it" and "Google and a tiny number of other companies hold most everyones email and always looks at it".