Re: I have migrated my family over to Signal Messenger.
  By: August Abolins to Arelor on Mon Dec 20 2021 11:00 pm

 > Hello Arelor!
 > 
 > ** On Monday 20.12.21 - 18:20, Arelor wrote to TheCivvie:
 > 
 >  A> I have migrated my family over to Signal Messenger. They
 >  A> keep their Facebooks but if they want to find me online
 >  A> they are going to have to play with my rules.
 > 
 >  A> I am not even a hardcore Signal fan. It is just the best
 >  A> thing they are going to be able to use.
 > 
 > And they wouldn't even try email?  Session/Deltachat interfaces
 > look the same on smartphones.
 > 
 > --
 >   ../|ug

My family makes extensive use of email, but email is for something else.

Also, I was talking about Signal, not Session :-)

I won't use my main email accoutns on a smartphone because I don't trust
smartphones.
Most of my email accounts I consider to deserve a high level of security because
they
are used for registering to web services, banking services and the like. I don't
think
consumer-grade smartphone operating systems are safe enough for managing such
things.

For starters, I don't trust the vendors. The security of the whole stack is
leaky and
it shows (you may configure a certain proxy for the system, only for some
applicaiton
to ignore it and try to connect by its own means, for example). And the whole
thing
gets EOLed before poor people like us discards the hardware which means we are
likely
to end up running unsuported systems. So, not a great deal for email

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