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by tptacek 4213 days ago
Don't use web mail for secure messaging.
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I'd like to send email messages to people without them being routinely read, stored and indexed by my govt, other govts, the hosting company, etc. Naively, this sounds simple enough to do, and you'd imagine that everyone would want&use such a system.

How to I persuade other non-technical people to use something that is moderately secure? Tutanota seems like something I might be able to persuade people to use - 'hey, sign up for this, it is free, it is just like your current webmail plus if we both use it, our mail is encrypted.' That is an improvement on what they currently use, no?

Do you know of any 'good' (or just 'good enough' (or even just 'better')) options?