• iopq@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Can we get away from email?

    It’s not a secure form of communication anyway. I want my messages to be e2e encrypted so I know I am the only one that can read them

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      9 months ago

      What a stupid thing to say.

      Whatever your favorite (and probably shitty) proprietary or open source messaging service - not everybody uses it. But hey, everyone has email, so let’s kill that.

      BTW since you said encryption is important to you: your walled-garden messaging service has a much easier time profiling you and your friends than they would in a heterogenous environment like email. They don’t need the content anyway, just metadata.

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        9 months ago

        They don’t need the content anyway, just metadata.

        ProtonMail uses PGP encryption to encrypt emails, which means your meta data, including subject line is vulnerable to data collection. Also there is no forward secrecy with current PGP standard. See quotes from below:

        We have built Proton Mail with PGP fully integrated, … All messages between Proton Mail users are automatically end-to-end encrypted.

        https://proton.me/support/how-to-use-pgp

        Subject lines and recipient/sender email addresses are encrypted but not end-to-end encrypted.

        https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-encryption-explained

        PGP exposes much more info to outside party than any good communication protocol, like the signal protocol or OMEMO used by XMPP.

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          9 months ago

          No, they can’t since I don’t have a Google mail address. Even if I had, they’d have a harder time building a social graph when I communicate with others outside of Gmail.