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Privacy Isn't Dead. Far From It.
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this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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After all the fuzz about Mullvad having used Gmail for email and now self-hosting, have you checked what EFF uses for email ? So long privacy !
Well, I have, have you?
From their website: Legal Assistance and General Information
For legal assistance requests, general questions, or miscellaneous queries: info@eff.org info@eff.org PGP public key GPG Key Fingerprint: F2F2 1BB8 531E 9DC3 0D40 F68B 11A1 A9C8 4B18 732F Signal Number (text only): 510-243-8020. To verify it's us, you can check the safety numbers for the conversation. Either the first half or the second half of the safety numbers should read one of the following:35593 90536 26981 58470 03363 72867 or 38948 48795 16727 63104 76636 96731.
Look up their MX records : Microsoft email
In true EFF fashion. Their second server / backup MX is hosted at some other smaller company so things could be worse, at least their MX as a non Microsoft alternative.
Either way I can get this, they most likely have hundreds of people using Microsoft products, like Office 365, and Outlook's compatibility with IMAP is a joke. They most likely also don't want to run a serious in-house email infraestruture capable of handling that load. All reasons might have driven them to Microsoft / O365.
This is usually what happens, when your company is big you can't make it with open-source without tons of extra costs and complexities. Sad but true.
Hell, even SMB really can't easily/cost-effectively run without MS.
Sad, but true.
Unfortunately it can't either be run in a solid and stable way EVEN with MS. The Windows' SMB client sucks as well.
There isn't a a lot of options for public facing organizations. It kind of sucks but it is true.
Also email isn't private or secure and it will never be private or secure unless you use gpg everywhere with everyone. Even with gpg you still have a public identity.
Really ?
Agreed.
One problem with GnuPG is that it will take a lot of effort to make normies use it.
EFF and Fastmail for email seems like a perfect match. And Fastmail has servers in the USA which EFF might appreciate :)