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>Mail just isn’t something that’s built in a way that it can be a private service. No but theres a lot of daylight between "There might be intermediaries" and
by protocolture 16d ago
>Mail just isn’t something that’s built in a way that it can be a private service.
No but theres a lot of daylight between "There might be intermediaries" and "The australian government can verbally request secret adjustments to this companies software"
- Grombobulous 16d agoI fail to see how that matters to the end consumer specifically in the context of an email product. It’s still ultimately a service dealing with plain text data that’s moving between providers in ways you can’t control very well to begin with. 100% of your email is read by someone else. You don’t send private information over email or store it in an email server. Sure, I wouldn’t personally be buying an end to end encrypted drive service from an Australian company.
- protocolture 15d agoI mean, the government could demand an authentication backdoor that's located by non government entities. Or any of a million things. The Australian government needs to be treated as an absolute supply chain risk.
- Grombobulous 14d agoAgain, a backdoor to data you’re already sending and receiving to basically random strangers on random servers who have an instant ability to forward that information along to anyone.