Hello Arelor!

** On Wednesday 22.12.21 - 20:04, Arelor wrote to August Abolins:

 >> 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.


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

Not sure what "email is for something else" means.. but I guess  
it's a family thing.

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

True.  My bad.  I believe I sent you email about my fait  
accompli.  I have no idea how I mixed up Session with Signal.


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

Give DeltaChat a test run.  It uses one's existing email  
service and does not rely on 3rd-party systems like Telegram,   
nor like Session.  The public keys are exchanged in the  
Autocrpyt header sections.


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

DeltaChat doesn't seem to have that problem (EOL, unsupported,  
etc..)   Everything is self-contained using one's own existing  
email servers.

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