Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (2014)

Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by YeBanKo on Sunday October 23, 2022 @05:55AM (#33305793)

At this point some government entity should provide a way to have an inalienable electronic address. There are strong protections for regular mail, that ensure that mail gets delivered. Cell carriers are required to port numbers. Since email addresses are tied to domain, there should be some usps-like service that allows to have an address, that can be related to a provider of your choosing. And this address is tied to your identity, which you can verify by physically visiting usps or dmv if all else fails.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by Kye on Sunday October 23, 2022 @06:39AM (#33305958)

>> "Cell carriers are required to port numbers."

This wasn't always the case. People had to advocate for it, and FCC policy (Wireless Local Number Portability) had to change. It didn't happen until 2003 in the US. It won't be any different for emails and domains: someone has to push for that change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_number_portability

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by ThunderSizzle on Sunday October 23, 2022 @07:50AM (#33306220)

No thank you. The government doesn't need even more power over my life.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by denton-scratch on Sunday October 23, 2022 @10:01AM (#33307077)

> ensure that mail gets delivered

Email is intrinsically an unreliable service, and always has been. It's a "best-effort" service. But at least email is honest about it up-front, and tries to address reliability in the RFCs.

Not that Google cares much about RFCs.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by YeBanKo on Sunday October 23, 2022 @02:20PM (#33308992)

That was in reference to regular mail. USPS was one of the first fed agencies and mail was one of the few original functionals of the central government. On top of USPS being one of the largest agencies, there is also legal protection against tempering with mail and usps has its own enforcement branch.

In case of email, it probably should simpler. Gov only serves as an address book, essentially. But does minimum of tech implementing it. Given how domain MX records work, does not seem possible. So i think email relay is the closest thing.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by denton-scratch on Sunday October 23, 2022 @02:31PM (#33309071)

OIC, sorry. It crossed my mind that's what you meant, but I said "Nah".

As far as USPS anti-tampering and enforcement goes: <hollow laugh>. The postmen robbed me silly, and there was no process to get it fixed.

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