"email is inherently insecure, email can never be secure, it leaks a LOT of metadata and only the body is encrypted, subject can NOT be encrypted, you can NOT build a secure system on top of email"
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Yeah this is the guy who has been plugging it. It's not that I don't like it, but I don't like the use of the email protocols being used in that ways it wasn't meant for. Its also yet another standard when we already have a few, keeping people separate
fair enough