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Unencrypted email

2017-12-01 18:37:29.278259+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Privacy stripped away, one email at a time. Or: why you should assume that your email is being read by state actors and hackers, even if you think STARTTLS made server to server encryption the norm.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Privacy Cryptography ]

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#Comment Re: Unencrypted email made: 2017-12-02 11:50:42.841966+00 by: DaveP

Email has always been postcards, right?

[reads article]

Oh! Yeah StartTLS was never guaranteed to work end to end, and someone noticed.

Email is postcards, and your mailman reads them.

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