Re: Is this ALL good advise

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Wednesday 04 December 2019 11:17:27 John Hasler wrote:

>  Brad Rogers writes:
> > And as has been mentioned, people continue to use the
> > google/yahoo/whoever surveillance webmail systems.  And let's face
> > it, they're not going to offer encryption that does not, at the very
> > least, have a backdoor in it.
>
> Not cynical.  Given that they must be able to scan the messages for
> business reasons[1] there is no way they can offer end-to-end
> encryption.
>
> [1] If the advertising agencies that offer those free Webmail
> services couldn't scan the messages for data to add to their databases
> how would they pay for them?  They aren't operating as charities.

Which bring me to the table to ask about protonmail. Who pays for that 
supposedly secure service at the end of the month? Simple TANSTAAFL, a 
law that can't be broken and have survivors, John.

And an it follows question, how does it work with mailing lists such as 
this one?

Have had a fire it took an extinguisher to put out last Friday in my main 
box, I've stuff coming that enough bigger/faster to consider such an 
option, but I fail to see how it will work with a mailing list which is 
probably 95+ percent of my email traffic here.  Much of which is signed, 
but kmail, for the first time ever, confirmed a good signature about 2 
weeks back so that gives one an idea of how many, including me, don't 
fully understand how to use a gpg signature correctly.

IMO it needs far more educationally aimed discussion than the lists in 
general have supported so far. Even a pointer to a good tut would be 
appreciated at this campsite. A tut that is NOT written as a commercial 
for a certain email agent, but simply specifies what needs to be done.

Thanks John.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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