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Re:Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous ne... by ObsoleteNerd on Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:23PM (#18638355)
I'm an Australian privacy-obsessed Fastmail user, and use them for my family domains and all our primary email. I'll keep using them, because email isn't private in the first place. Any more than snail mail is. Both can be intercepted and read by authorities without you knowing.

For secure communications, you shouldn't be using email in the first place, so these new laws don't change much in that regard (in my understanding, I'm still catching up on the new laws because I have limited internet access right now, I'm happy to be corrected).

Re:Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous ne... by LeoPanthera on Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:32PM (#18638394)
This is increasingly not true. SMTP-over-TLS is now the standard, and unless you are trying to imply that TLS is broken, email is far more secure than it used to be.
Re:Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous ne... by int_19h on Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:54PM (#18638504)
If it's not end-to-end encrypted, it's not secure in the sense OP clearly means.
Re:Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous ne... by giancarlostoro on Sunday December 09, 2018 @12:15AM (#18639453)
Correct: if either mail server is compromised by the government then it may as well be plaintext.