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  • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Yes but even then email, as a technology, can't be fully built securely yourself.

    3 examples:

    1. ISPs block the port used for sending emails. You therefore need to have a third party do it for you, sending your emails through them. Only e2e-encrypted emails will be nominally safe in that arrangement.

    2. As part of spam-fighting efforts (supposedly), the big email providers will tend to block IPs that are sending emails if they aren't already part of a "trusted" set. So even if you could pay your ISP to open the port you want, you'd probably get banned by Gmail, etc. This restricts the set of providers you can use as well.

    3. Email is only as secure as the other parties that can read them. If you send an email to a buddy, even e2e encrypted, but they decide to forward their emails to Gmail (very common), well now Google can see everything and be subpoenaed.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      3 years ago

      Hmm If I was sending sensitive illegal emails I would simply make them impossible to be read by the feds by making all the subjects “feds not allowed to read this pls”

      • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        The feds can't prosecute you if you put "are you a cop?" at the end of all your emails and they never reply, "yes"