[liberationtech] Why_can't_email_be_secure

[Ali-Reza Anghaie]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:14 PM, StealthMonger
<StealthMonger at nym.mixmin.net> wrote:
> Will the other cypherpunks on this list please step forward and help me
> refute this toxic propaganda?  I don't have time to do it all myself.

And herein lies the problem - Silent Circle isn't talking to "us" -
they are talking to the other 99.99% of email users in the world. To
them ~nothing~ you mention is meaningful until it's in webmail with
free storage, rich interface, for mom & dad, always available, etc.

We can argue how big of a problem that "culture" is but we have helped
create it too with poorly railing against commercial services and
software over the years (in tactical terms).

So again, now I think we're stuck that we need to stop using the term
"secure email" ~at all~.. conceptually we need to make people
understand "email" is postal mail at best and someone can come take it
out of your mailbox and peep to their heart's content. If you want
security, don't use email. Whether that's strictly true or not
(obviously it isn't) - it's true in general practice. And having an
OPSEC revolution isn't in the cards.

I think it has to be that binary a solution, and well supported, to
eventually get people to use anything "secure"..

-Ali