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Re:Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phi... by londons_explore on Saturday December 26, 2020 @05:07AM (#25542468)
It's time privacy sensitive governments started doing something about the lack of privacy in email.

How is it acceptable that my email to Bob Smith can travel across the internet unencrypted with my and his name plastered on the top? Thats a privacy problem!

The EU regulators should fine anyone who sends an unencrypted email within the EU... Start with big mail providers to get change in motion.

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Re:Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phi... by raverbashing on Saturday December 26, 2020 @05:19AM (#25542516)
If your email goes between the major email providers, it goes encrypted. (At least according to the headers)
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Re:Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phi... by londons_explore on Saturday December 26, 2020 @11:11AM (#25544257)
It goes encrypted, but hardly anyone checks TLS certificates on SMTP connections. That means you're not safe against any ISP on the route who could simply proxy with a self signed cert...

Thats barely better than unencrypted.

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Re:Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phi... by raverbashing on Saturday December 26, 2020 @12:17PM (#25544766)
Hardly anyone who? Email clients are supposed to check or they're internally bound (Gmail web client etc).

Yes I think you can bypass the checks but doesn't mean they aren't checked

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Re:Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phi... by londons_explore on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:04PM (#25547164)
Server to server connections.

Eg. Gmail.com sending email to cnn.com. That would be TLS encrypted, but the server certificate wouldn't be checked.

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Re:Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phi... by kmlx on Saturday December 26, 2020 @05:20AM (#25542521)
is this satire? Can’t tell due to how strange these forums have become in the past few years.
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