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mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mshelton/116214301513839946

article: https://signal.org/bigbrother/district-of-columbia/

context: https://technologymagazine.com/cloud-and-cybersecurity/protonmail-under-fire-over-data-handover

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Is it really so hard to make it secure? If both parties are using some kind of secure email client, couldn't the clients just encrypt and decrypt the subject/content?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    The main issue is that in reality, 95%+ of people aren’t using an encrypted service. So it’s proton to Gmail usually

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Sure but this is very similar to messaging isn't it? Like most of my friends use WhatsApp, but a few people use signal and that number is increasing.

    At least with email, a single client could presumably send encrypted emails to others when possible, and regular emails when not. Add opposed to messaging where I cannot send messages from signal to WhatsApp

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