[ragnese]

I remember being fooled by the whole "We're Swiss, isn't that great?" marketing at the beginning. It was disappointing, to say the least, when I learned that Switzerland is part of the N-eyes agreement(s).

Truth is that Email is almost a dead protocol now, anyway. As much as that hurts me to say. It was never able to meet the moment- PGP is complicated and easy to mess up, it's pretty damn hard to host your own Email server and not end up in everyone's SPAM or blocked, and if they person on the other end is using GMail, your shit's being read, analyzed, and archived anyway.

Email is going to be a business-only (as in "companies"/"corporations"/etc) protocol soon.

[unethical_ban]

I agree in that, for me, e-mail is almost solely used for business communications and newsletters. However, I don't know of a "timeless", or otherwise decentralized, communication technology so ubiquitous that can be secured like e-mail. Signal seems to be the hip thing, but it's centralized. "Blockchain" communications, perhaps?

[stjohnswarts]

That is something I doubt I'll ever sign up for is my email on a blockchain lol unless it's just a hash of the email text or something for "proof" of it's origin/association.

[dane-pgp]

Actually, a blockchain might work as the basis for a distributed email server reputation system. If every provider published their opinion of all the providers they've received emails from, it should be possible to reach a consensus about who the spammers are.

Hopefully this system would provide a useful signal even if it was only adopted by a few big mail providers, and they could pressure newly-registered mail domains to adopt it or face delivery delays. Long-established mail domains would be grandfathered in, so most providers wouldn't have to change anything.