You do realize the entire internet is run on servers and network devices you do not control, right?
A bunch of intermediary relay mail servers of course all store and forward your mails. But there's also a couple dozen firewalls, traffic shapers, tunnels, bridges, routers, and managed switches that all have your e-mail. Who cares about disk storage when your e-mail is stored in 15 network device caches?
Mail has never really been secure, from the days of Incan relay runners passing messages across thousands of miles, to the Pony Express, to the current US postal service. Unless you put an encrypted letter in your envelope, it can (and regularly does) get intercepted by malicious actors. We've gone this long with it being insecure, so I don't see what the big fuss is with the internet all of a sudden.
Also: mail should be easy and universal. That's really the point of mail: that you can send a message to anyone, anywhere in the world, with one system, and it just works [while remaining inexpensive]. Anyone messing with it should always keep that in mind.
Maybe you commented after the title changed? Original title was "How secure is your email? here's email-in-a-box" (at least that's what I remember it was).
My comment was basically "email is not secure." I think we agree on that point.
Yes. I guess I was just (badly) making the point that since it's impossible to just communicate with one server you control, a secure mail paradigm should include servers we do not control.
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You do realize the entire internet is run on servers and network devices you do not control, right?
A bunch of intermediary relay mail servers of course all store and forward your mails. But there's also a couple dozen firewalls, traffic shapers, tunnels, bridges, routers, and managed switches that all have your e-mail. Who cares about disk storage when your e-mail is stored in 15 network device caches?
Mail has never really been secure, from the days of Incan relay runners passing messages across thousands of miles, to the Pony Express, to the current US postal service. Unless you put an encrypted letter in your envelope, it can (and regularly does) get intercepted by malicious actors. We've gone this long with it being insecure, so I don't see what the big fuss is with the internet all of a sudden.
Also: mail should be easy and universal. That's really the point of mail: that you can send a message to anyone, anywhere in the world, with one system, and it just works [while remaining inexpensive]. Anyone messing with it should always keep that in mind.
Dragnet surveillance was never practical before, due to the ongoing manpower required. With the Internet, that's changed.
Maybe you commented after the title changed? Original title was "How secure is your email? here's email-in-a-box" (at least that's what I remember it was).
My comment was basically "email is not secure." I think we agree on that point.
Yes. I guess I was just (badly) making the point that since it's impossible to just communicate with one server you control, a secure mail paradigm should include servers we do not control.