Stop Using Encrypted Email (2020)

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But tools like PGP don’t make this kind of surveillance any harder, and a targeted attacker will still get access to mail servers and messages

PGP is good enough for me. If something is sensitive enough I can include instructions in the PGP encrypted message to use my private forum, private IRC, private voice chat, private SFTP and the email trail goes cold. That's just for me though. Maybe what they stated will apply to others. I can't save everyone.

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Protonmail solves many of these issues, if both recipient and sender are there :) It's as good as the email can be at the moment; I don't think apps like Signal can fully replace something as universal as email - maybe we can extend the underlying protocol to support e2ee natively?

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