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by lotsofpulp 459 days ago
Why would ISP provided email be any more private than Gmail? If anything, I expect ISP provided email to be more compromised.
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Because it’s a lot easier to compromise one email provider instead of a million. I’m surprised I have to explain the benefits of federated over centralized systems here.
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