Except its completely unencrypted
Yeah, itβs not without faults, so ProtonMail and similar may be a good compromise, or encrypting and sending longer documents. Ideally one day email will be rebuilt from the ground up with encryption.
Also to address your later comments, E2EE messengers are great, but short form writing is simply a different use case from long form.
More widespread adoption of WKD (https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKDHosting) would be fantastic.
So is regular mail. Should we stop sending physical letters?
If itβs that important, write your email in code.
I mean, your connection to your email provider is encrypted (I hope!) - probably with TLS
Your email provider will communicate with the receivers email server over an encrypted connection (probably TLS again)
Your recipient connects to their provider over a secure connection too!
Yes, your email companies can read it, but that is the case with lots of IM providers tooβ¦
I really like email. Something about its free as in freedom nature/protocol fills me up with joy as I fire up my email clients! Itβs just nice and warm compared to all the corpo bullshit messengers. Sadly, Google and Microsoft are trying their best to lock down email. But I believe itβs gonna outlast their shenanigans, hopefully. Meanwhile, I have my trusty local email clients to keep me company
Sadly, Google and Microsoft are trying their best to lock down email.
What do you mean?
Very solid reasons mentioned by @nobody158@sh.itjust.works in the sibling comment.
Another issue is that they forced people towards top posting which combined with the rise of html email led to the decline of plain text email, which really sucks for not just privacy but also accessibility
email is the main way I want communications sent to me. I still get annoyed statements canβt be emailed over mailed. mailed is not more secure. just leave out most of the account number or better yet have a unique statement account number
Email is pretty terrible, aged technology. Itβs like if you took a car from the 1800s and started bolting in all the safety features from today.
That said the monstrosity that email is today, is still useful and without a replacement so here we are
