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Re:FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account,... by PenguinCoder on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:46AM (#27155486)
Base64 is an encoding, not encryption. But yes PGP or S/MIME encrypted email would work.
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Re:FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account,... by iudqnolq on Friday May 14, 2021 @01:35PM (#27157168)
Charitably, they mean take the whole message with headers, encrypt it, and base64 it so you can stick it in a body. Probably still a bad idea.
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