This thread is full of hackers eager to apply a technological solution - encryption - to a problem which is better solved legally. Encryption has rather obviou

This thread is full of hackers eager to apply a technological solution - encryption - to a problem which is better solved legally. Encryption has rather obvious usability problems, such as being fundamentally incompatible with webmail (and remote access in general - even if you use a client that decrypts emails, you can't search without downloading your entire inbox); while it's highly valuable for myriad use cases, I shouldn't have to use it for all my random mail. Yes, email seems fundamentally insecure technically, SMTP servers bouncing messages to other SMTP servers in the clear, but older networks such as physical mail and telephone are even worse and harder to secure, yet I still have an expectation of privacy (even if I use a PO box to store my mail remotely...) because it has been established by law. There is zero reason this shouldn't apply to email.