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		viraptor 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poor Johnny still won't encrypt Because if the default is unencrypted, you'll accidentally send secrets in plaintext one day. And if the default is encrypted and works well - why would you ever take time to explicitly disable that? What's the situation where you want to say "just in case someone intercepts this message, I want them to be able to read it"?

sam_lowry_ 3 days ago [–]

Encrypted communication has lots of practical drawbacks.

For me email is just fine the way it is. Deliverability could be better and Google/Microsoft duopoly is a problem but that's it.

Stop reinventing the wheel.

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