Solid points overall, but I think the fundemental flaw with email is that it is 100% insecure by default and has little way to make it secure for a layperson. Email has been used as a replacement...
Solid points overall, but I think the fundemental flaw with email is that it is 100% insecure by default and has little way to make it secure for a layperson.
Email has been used as a replacement for physical mail for most things. But physical mail is, due to its very nature, E2E encrypted... there's even stringent laws enforcing that (felony to open someone else's mail). Since email is the defacto replacement, its insecurity is a massive problem because people assume that it is secure.
I would tend to agree, but the flaw is rarely a concern. Nearly all secure communication is now handled through side channels - such as secure messaging for financial accounts. In that case, email...
I would tend to agree, but the flaw is rarely a concern. Nearly all secure communication is now handled through side channels - such as secure messaging for financial accounts. In that case, email has become a notification channel, or aggregator, rather than a direct communication medium. In this way it is very similar to snailmail - anyone seeing your mail can see the return address; the email is just a wrapper for a secure channel.
Counterpoint: Every leaked email scandal ever. Communication should be secure, regardless of content. Even relatively innocuous notifications can have sensitive data.
Counterpoint: Every leaked email scandal ever.
Communication should be secure, regardless of content.
Even relatively innocuous notifications can have sensitive data.
Lovely commentary. Though I have some questions regarding the site which you used, like How did you do it? I know Privacytools.io, yet I have never found this site.
Lovely commentary.
Though I have some questions regarding the site which you used, like
How did you do it?
I know Privacytools.io, yet I have never found this site.
Solid points overall, but I think the fundemental flaw with email is that it is 100% insecure by default and has little way to make it secure for a layperson.
Email has been used as a replacement for physical mail for most things. But physical mail is, due to its very nature, E2E encrypted... there's even stringent laws enforcing that (felony to open someone else's mail). Since email is the defacto replacement, its insecurity is a massive problem because people assume that it is secure.
Just because it's illegal to open someone else's mail doesn't mean it's encrypted. It's just illegal.
I would tend to agree, but the flaw is rarely a concern. Nearly all secure communication is now handled through side channels - such as secure messaging for financial accounts. In that case, email has become a notification channel, or aggregator, rather than a direct communication medium. In this way it is very similar to snailmail - anyone seeing your mail can see the return address; the email is just a wrapper for a secure channel.
Counterpoint: Every leaked email scandal ever.
Communication should be secure, regardless of content.
Even relatively innocuous notifications can have sensitive data.
Thanks, really appreciate it!
Lovely commentary.
Though I have some questions regarding the site which you used, like
How did you do it?
I know Privacytools.io, yet I have never found this site.
Thats exactly how!
Thanks!
whether not wether.
Thanks, need to do a better job at proof reading next time.