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People need to stop trying to make email as a medium private outside of choosing providers that don't scan or snoop or offer unauthorized (by which I mean YOU do not consent to them sharing with ANYBODY or ORGANIZATION) externalized access or monetize on that which you send/receive/retain.
Don't send an email unless you are aware and consent to it being preserved and shared endlessly with zero input or consideration for your view of that.
Mails being encrypted end-to-end would obviously be ideal, but yeah. How many people outside of our privacy bubble use a private service, and/or have PGP set up? How many even know what PGP is?
The messages that sit in my inbox being encrypted and not being accessed by the provider I'm using is realistically the best I can hope for.
I've been told multiple times that having a @protonmail email makes me look like a conspiracy theorist, once in an interview. Privacy is way more niche than I'd hope for.
"Why don't you use Gmail like a normal person"
Or simply being flagged as spam because of all the phishing training that goes on in big companies.
In an interview?
Glad they let you know their ignorance on security up front.
Seriously, do they leave their doors open for anyone to walk in, or do they use badge readers like everyone else?
Some companies don't see privacy as security. They want to know your background, when you punch in/ punch out, if you're the type of person to leak secrets over the "dark web".
Some also don't believe in privacy at all, they believe in contract. When choosing a platform they want to know if they can sue them for breaching an NDA.
I did not receive an offer from that specific interview but yeah, I admit it was odd and didn't inspire trust so I wouldn't have accepted anyway.
PGP to me is literally only of any interest as a quick way to encrypt anything/files/documents (in a preferable format to zip or archives etc) in a keyfile type fashion where you need the credential and password for any given decryption and it can be done so quickly if you have a good app.
I would never use it for like email stuff, if we're talking about messaging its gotta be Signal or Threema or Matrix(Element, Session) etc. Maybe Olvid or SimpleX is interesting too but I'm open to a larger discussion of messaging and the available platforms and discussion of the nitpickier deets.
Not really. Maybe more available but almost certainly less secure compared to files just sitting on a single server somewhere in terms of data being accessible to attackers.
I think it allows syncing without requiring a central node, that’s how AnyType seems to use it.
I think it’s mostly about the fact that the mail is encrypted after being received by the Skiff mail server.