I'm just a girl, incrementing the counter on the number of times I have been sent a plaintext email from a Protonmail user telling me that the message is encrypted.
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@JustinDerrick Thanks for the long description. So would this small percentage of people using this setup be due to a network effect/getting friends to comply issue, or do most people simply not care about privacy?
@CAWguy You'd have to get everyone you know to leave their webmail providers, and only receive eMail with specific physical devices (phone / laptop / desktop). I haven't been able to get anyone I know to give up their webmail accounts, even by offering them free hosting and vanity addresses on my mail server.
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@CAWguy You'd have to get everyone you know to leave their webmail providers, and only receive eMail with specific physical devices (phone / laptop / desktop). I haven't been able to get anyone I know to give up their webmail accounts, even by offering them free hosting and vanity addresses on my mail server.
@JustinDerrick Those are definitely many steps too far! I merely suggested using Signal at a small non-profit where I volunteer, and I could see the eye rolls at me.
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@JustinDerrick Those are definitely many steps too far! I merely suggested using Signal at a small non-profit where I volunteer, and I could see the eye rolls at me.
@CAWguy Yeah, many years ago, I presented info about Signal to a nearby non-profit. Their President still sends stuff through SMS, even after having made it a requirement for their entire team to start using Signal.
The inertia of bad habits is very difficult to overcome.
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I'm just a girl, incrementing the counter on the number of times I have been sent a plaintext email from a Protonmail user telling me that the message is encrypted.
@evacide rot26-encrypted
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"Military grade encryption" is another one
Actually anything "military-grade" is almost always used as a marketing term, not just in tech products.Personally I always try to use noncommercial alternatives where I can, like Mastodon for example. It's so much saner when they're not trying to sell you something, like the listings here - https://www.directory.trade-free.org
And people should donate to these good projects to support them.
@futureisfoss @jjacobsson @evacide A friend is in the US navy and told me "military grade" means "outdated, hard to use, developed by the lowest bidder contractor".
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I'm just a girl, incrementing the counter on the number of times I have been sent a plaintext email from a Protonmail user telling me that the message is encrypted.
@evacide This message reaches you encrypted with the devilish rot0 algorithm.
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I'm just a girl, incrementing the counter on the number of times I have been sent a plaintext email from a Protonmail user telling me that the message is encrypted.
@evacide @zarchasmpgmr if we all believe hard enough maybe it will come true
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I'm just a girl, incrementing the counter on the number of times I have been sent a plaintext email from a Protonmail user telling me that the message is encrypted.
@evacide Be a large pile of nickels by now, huh?
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Same problem with Tuta.
for email, I pretty much settle for 'not automatically surveilled', and use something else if it needs to be better than that.
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@riverpunk You have come to the correct conclusion, yes. In the meantime, I do need to come up with suggestions for what people should do about sensitive email and I have to cut through a lot of misleading advertising claims in order to do it.
