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I recently needed a lawyer on something that involved lots of highly sensitive PI.

Sending my file over to lawyers in a semi-safe way has proved impossible.

And in any case, i received an answer with lots of PI over a plain email…

Absolutely maddening

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Was Signal an option you have considered? It's designed to be secure even if the user is non-technical.

Why? I would assume encrypting and sending the key via a different channel would be sufficient. Or are lawyers still not technically apt to do so?

Then lawyer replies in plain email discussing those very things...

The lawyers I’ve used have always asked and used encrypted email. I don’t know if that’s regional, but it was taken very seriously here.

Probably greatly depends how old the lawyer is and how big the law firm is.

If it's one older guy, good luck. You're probably better off doing everything by FAX honestly.

If normal people aren't, I wouldn't expect lawyers to be either. If there's no happy path to encrypted communication, then it will not happen.

It's part of their job. If they can't do that right they certainly can't do the rest of their job right. Just like it's OK to get queazy if your doctor is functionally illiterate or your lifeguard can't swim. Also things that match average people in some areas.

“We can’t open this”

It was .7z with strong pwd. The normal zip is supposedly too weak according to llms

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