https://sneak.berlin/20201029/stop-emailing-like-a-rube/
It even has special instructions about how to secure the domain registration and DNS accounts. :)
(Don't use G Suite, though.)
And indeed, your site does have a RSS feed, so what's with the e-mail address collecting? Rude!
But for someone like me, if I take all this advice, there is still the aspect of trusting the domain registrar, maintaining a personal email server, hosting, CloudFlare, etc. etc. I have just shifted some risk of offending Google to some other risks of 3x more companies that I have to remember how to deal with now.
So what difference does it mean to me, average user, that I just stick with Google and don't misbehave, versus open myself up to having to deal with 3 other manual processes and companies to remember? It's turtles all the way down.
You see the dilemma for the average user.
1) the front, if you so will - the emails which you give out and to which people (or algos) send you stuff
2) the back, where you receive and read your emails.
For many people, for example:
1) abc@gmail.com
2) gmail.com web mailer, or gmail app on mobile, or native OS app on the computer
You suggest a complete revamp:
1) catchall at own domain: anything@mydomain.com
2) one (or several) protonmail/fastmail accounts
But it's worth highlighting that people can get many benefits already by
1) catchall at own domain: anything@mydomain.com (as you explained)
2) keep whatever you're using now.
Just forward 1) to 2). Then you can start handing out the new email.
If you found it valuable, you should submit it yourself. I'm not interested in the accumulation of updoots, feel free to get 'em. :)
I'd rather other people decide what subset of my writing is relevant to HN, as I'm no good at it: I'm too close to the work. (I only write about things I care a lot about.)
But the article is very well written and would be a shame if we didn't got other opinions here in HN, kudos for you, already added it to Pocket for later
Will try to get it rolling then
But why referring to Protonmail and using Fastmail for yourself?
The fact that FastMail might be subject to the new Australian crypto key escrow law[1] is a little bit worrisome, and I may not continue to use them in the future depending on how that plays out.
For things where surveillance is less of an issue, I prefer being able to use a plain IMAP client, which ProtonMail does not support. Their current iOS client is pretty lame, for example (although their web client is better, and I understand that their next major release will improve things a lot across the board). I mention the IMAP issue in the article.
[1]: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi...
FM is saying it doesn’t affect them, as they are not a secure provider and can already give any information out upon lawful requests.
Do you disagree with that?
That in short, the A&A bill is about breaking end-to-end encryption, which Fastmail has never had anything to do with. It’s scary-sounding legislation, and I reckon it’s misguided at best, but it honestly doesn’t affect all that many businesses [note I’m saying businesses rather than people; many affected businesses will be among the largest ones, serving consumers], because end-to-end encryption of communications is uncommon, because it’s so frightfully inconvenient for all parties involved, because now the server is necessarily dumb and the client has to do a lot more work, and things like searching are typically just altogether broken because you’ll need the full index on the client to do a search.
(And specifically of the domain of email, I wouldn’t trust first-party encryption; if you care about governments accessing your data, first-party encryption such as ProtonMail offers is almost equivalent to no encryption if you can’t verify the code that is running, since that party may be compelled to backdoor the code to steal your password. This is one of the many reasons that Fastmail has never implemented PGP, ⅌ https://fastmail.blog/2016/12/10/why-we-dont-offer-pgp/.)
So your advice would be to go with Protonmail all the way, as you wrote it within your blog?