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Looking for Thoughts on Email
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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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You dont know how the sender or recipient handles your mail, but handling your own with encryption is still a good practice.
An email provider can have an entire database of all your emails (e.g. Google with Gmail), which more valuable than individual people or companies having access to only a few related ones.
There's also PGP support with some providers, so you could set-up encrypted emailing with people if that's important to you.
Either way, getting away from the big providers is a good move, I'd at least want my inbox encrypted though, like Proton or others do.
Fully encrypted email should have been made standard a long time ago.
It's not how they handle the email that worries me. It's how they handle the one time pad that does. They'd better be ready to eat that thing if they can't burn it.