Email is inherently insecure. If you want or need secure communications, that’s what software like Briar, Matrix, or Signal (yes despite some drama).

Secure emails can always be done manually with PGP and will be a lot hardier than trusting an organization that gives away subscriber payments to Western-backed coup attempts and color revolutions.

  • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    3 years ago

    Same stuff with SimpleLogin. They said they could offer promo codes to activists or dissidents so I emailed them about how that would work, and they wanted me to send a copy of my “activist card” (whatever that is lmao).

    No I’m not going to send you a document of my identity, I have no idea who you people are lmao. edit: and it goes without saying, a document that also ties me to activity governments may not approve of.

    • savoy@lemmygrad.mlOP
      6·
      3 years ago

      Broke: card-carrying communist party member

      Woke: activist card carrier

      I got suckered into ProtonMail a few years ago as a secure way to send email given its convenience. But then what’s the point when the vast majority of my email log is going to be mailing lists/updates etc. and the things that should be encrypted aren’t really as the other party doesn’t use PGP keys?

      • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
        5·
        3 years ago

        There have been so many attempts to make email secure and every one of them has failed… it just wasn’t built with security in mind. Its a sad state of affairs, because its so entrenched, that nothing’s going to succeed it for website signups and creating accounts.