alt Hacker NewsEmail was invented in 1965. It needs to be replaced with something that doesn't try to bolt security on as a lazy afterthought 30-40 years later.
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isaachinman • today at 12:16 AM
Sorry to break it to you, but email isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
We have everything we need to define email 2.0 with mandatory security, the problem is all the older installations that support 1.0 that everyone still expects to talk to.
New protocols only solved this by cutting compatibility. Signal can be E2EE because you can't send a message to an email address with it. Email can also be E2EE, but how do you know the recipient supports it?