Yes, I understand, but I think it’s a false premise that email can be secure at all. You shouldn’t treat it as such and you should never send incriminating or sensitive information through email regardless of what promises are made about it being secure lest it is your own server. You can talk to people in much more convenient and actually secure and even anonymous ways and email does none of that so I don’t know why it’s expected to.
Email should, for 2-way communication, at best be used to establish actually secure connections elsewhere.
For all else, it should just be treated as an inbox that random people from the internet can dump stuff in for you to check out at your discretion.
I agree with you that email is fundamentally broken, and I use it minimally for communication, but I find it to be mostly inescapable when it comes to registering any online account. That’s where I most appreciate an online service doing due diligence and making the messages unreadable to themselves as rapidly as they can.
It’s one thing to leave their proverbial door unlocked for a moment where somebody could get in, it’s quite another to leave it unlocked all the time. I just want a service that does the best they can given the terrible circumstances email provides.
Yes, I understand, but I think it’s a false premise that email can be secure at all. You shouldn’t treat it as such and you should never send incriminating or sensitive information through email regardless of what promises are made about it being secure lest it is your own server. You can talk to people in much more convenient and actually secure and even anonymous ways and email does none of that so I don’t know why it’s expected to.
Email should, for 2-way communication, at best be used to establish actually secure connections elsewhere.
For all else, it should just be treated as an inbox that random people from the internet can dump stuff in for you to check out at your discretion.
I agree with you that email is fundamentally broken, and I use it minimally for communication, but I find it to be mostly inescapable when it comes to registering any online account. That’s where I most appreciate an online service doing due diligence and making the messages unreadable to themselves as rapidly as they can.
It’s one thing to leave their proverbial door unlocked for a moment where somebody could get in, it’s quite another to leave it unlocked all the time. I just want a service that does the best they can given the terrible circumstances email provides.