/tech/ - Technology★

E-mail was born into this world when internet wasn't such an unsavory place and didn't need the security and privacy features that are common necessity nowadays. It is inherently insecure, and any workarounds for its weaknesses just adds more complexity that will definitely be exploited by malicious actors. Its best to not use email if your primary concern is securing your communications from powerful malicious actors.

>>1028308

pgp keys and basic end to end encryption isn't that complex, anon.

>>1028309

>isn't that complex

Not for most people, and that's the dealbreaker here anon.

protonmail is shit and its bridge is shit

https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/email.html

just use pgp

Do not use ProtonMail. Them being incorporated in Switzerland is completely meaningless. There were several votes in the last couple of years which've weakened privacy.

Go for a provider like mailfence or mailbox.org, etc. No webshit, good compatibility with GPG, any custom client allowed. Mailbox.org in particular allows for instant GPG encryption of incoming mail with a key of your choice, which totally BTFO's ProtonMail since it does so without webshit. Protonmail is a meme and I'm embarrassed to say I fell for it years ago.

>>1028324

Make it mandatory for business emails to the customer side (newsletters, delivery notifications, registration emails, customer feedback, amazon, google, apple etc.). 2 years later everyone knows basic usage and proprietary software has to implement it in a way that is usable for everyone. Countries have to host distributed keyservers that keep in sync with each other monthly (to provide their side of by-law privacy protection for their citizens).

Downsides: NPCs will complain that they don't want privacy, because it means cognitive load - and easier to use means better. Companies will complain that privacy costs them money for infrastructure and development - and that's all they care about. No global solution possible, but once anglo-american countries, EU (law still has to be made into national law by each country in the years following) and China have done it - the rest will have to follow suit.

>>1028343

I've also already seen hushmail being recommended. It's hard to know who to trust and as these companies should care a lot about PR, it should usually be not easy to find "dirt".