Email was never designed to be secure. It's one of the most non-secure ways of communication possible. It heavily relies on trust, for example, nothing about email prevents you from forging who it is from, you can send an email from epstein@fbi.gov and it will arrive in a person's mailbox just like that. Email also has no built-in encryption. The security of email thus has to be enforced by centralized parties, establishing their encryption standards and networks of trust. It's just a problem with email itself. People should just abandon email for secure communication. If you really need to send something securely then send it over a Matrix server or something that guarantees end-to-end encryption and can be hosted by anyone.
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Don't chose American tech. Don't choose European tech. Don't choose Chinese tech.
The country/continent of origin is irrelevant. You're still vulnerable to spyware either way.
Choose Open Source tech.
FOSS is the way to go wherever possible but hosting your own email is honesty absurd at this point. I know some people do it but for regular mortals it's not remotely an option.
*choose open source tech
Otherwise we're just swapping corporate abusers for new ones.
I still remember how redditors on some european subs argued that we need "European alternative for Palantir". Can't make this up.
Dude, WHAT
Nationalism isn't the unique privilege of America
Vivaldi is still Chrome under the hood
Its unrealistic for Vivaldi to implement their own engine, and gecko is noticably slower.
Yeah but it offers so much more control and features than vanilla Chrome and it does not ping back to the mothership.
Don't listen to the haters, kids. Vivaldi rocks.
And Qwant is Bing.
I believe you are mistaken https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2023/09/18/web-indexing-where-is-qwants-independence/
Wow, I was convinced of that too. I wish I remembered where I read that.
Fuck, I stopped using Qwant years ago because of this! Thanks for sharing.
I really fucking hope that this Munich security conference isn't our time's "Munich Agreement".
Just made this and your other post my Signal and WhatsApp story. Ironic, I knowโboth of those are American...
Perfect is the enemy of the good, you have to start somewhere!
That's one of my favourite aphorisms! You're very right.
That's arguably the optimal place to share something like this, as you're not "preaching to the choir"