[Crack12]

I really wish that fastmail wasn't based in australia..

edit because of downvote: I'm referencing the new data control laws (it is even beyond surveillance at this point), which makes it impossible to anyone who cares to use any autralia based products. I should have made that more clear.

[ocdtrekkie]

The laws in question have no meaningful impact on Fastmail, and the amount of FUD concerning those laws is unreal.

Fastmail wasn't end-to-end encrypted to begin with, so laws requiring backdoors have no relevance to Fastmail. And every civilized country has some legal method to compel information from companies relating to significant criminal activity.

[sneak]

You're right, of course, but this simply switches the "reason not to use Fastmail" from "based in Australia" to "not e2e encrypted and can rat out your entire email history".

[barbazoo]

I don't see e2ee email happening anytime soon. The technology is just not very user friendly. And honestly, without e2ee, I don't put much trust into providers like Protonmail either because at some point the email is coming in as plain text and that's where one could always siphon it off.

[ocdtrekkie]

I would consider that a valid position to take! I don't feel my threat model justifies the limitations of E2E email, but many do.

I am not trying to tell you to use Fastmail, just that fear of doing so explicitly because of Australian law is silly. ;)