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Think Your Email is Private? Think Againwww.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/no_author/think-your-email-is-private-think-again/
21 sats \ 5 comments \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Dec security
As bizarre and unethical as it is to give private companies the right to spy on customers and in effect become a branch of law enforcement, new legislation is being introduced that will actually make it mandatory for providers to monitor communications. This means that online government surveillance is no longer a secretive intelligence-gathering operation and anything you do online can result in criminal charges.
They say it’s intended to find child porn, but you can be sure that other crimes discussed via e-mail or instant messaging will be prosecuted as well. And now with protests breaking out across Europe in response to increasing medical authoritarianism, there is little doubt that dissidents will soon be targeted as well.
Well, well, well. They’ve just decided to make legal what has been illegal until now. Doesn’t that just warm the cockles of your heart, to know, “It’s for the children!” As usual it is everybody else that gets it in the shorts!
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43 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Dec
Wait... people still use Gmail as personal email? Anyways, email lost its use, now is just a relic, like a dying fax machine. I still use it but with a private domain and self-hosted (sometimes PGP encrypted) - only for personal communication if is needed. A throw away with protonmail for crap things. I do not use anything else. I've explained some other aspects here: https://darth-coin.github.io/general/avoid-being-spammed-en.html
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 15 Dec
Yeah, I lost my private domain a couple of years ago. I had a lot of email accounts on it depending on what I was using it for. Signups went to one address and business went to another, private to a third and family memembers to their own. The names were a lot easier, too. I could send out as encrypted or not depending how I felt about it.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Thereal 15 Dec
Am curious to see how it works
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 15 Dec
what? You don't know how to use email encrypted with PGP ? https://www.openpgp.org/
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 15 Dec
There are also some other incryption programs and apps you can get. They basically use PGP as the encryption program, though.
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