Email will never be secure, since it is not end-to-end encrypted. Regardless of the service you use, your data is sitting on a server available in plaintext to someone who has the keys. We need to move on from email.
Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland
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Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland
#42Is "ik" referring to the Dutch "I"? Regardless of the reason, I'm biased to like the name already ;-)
Referring to Ike Broflovski of course!
Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland
#43I prefer to pay even if its clear that the price don't cover the whole cost. Because the EU customer protections are pretty good if you are a customer (not sure that it applies if you are using free stuff).
Self hosted or paid is my first choice if at all possible especially for one of the most important services.
Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland
#44What is the business model ?
Not OP. Indirect answer. From the website [0], it appears that they have hosting services, domain registration services etc. None of these per se are high margin , so I am going to assume that their "web consultancy" business[1] has some margins to justify offering this for free. For all I know, this is a way to get people to the top of the funnel and then they will sell other services to these folks. [0] https://www…
> "web consultancy" business
Notably, they provide[1] VOD and AOD for the Swiss French public radio and television (RTS), the French Belgian public television (RTBF), and the Montreux Jazz Festival.
[1] https://www.infomaniak.com/en/multimedia/vod-aod/audio-on-de...
Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland
#45Folks - pay $5/month for Fastmail, Migadu, ProtonMail, or self host + your own domain name. Companies like this come and go, it’s a good chance you’ll still own the domain name.
There is no such thing as free. They’ll nag you for hosting on their site. UI will degrade over time. Something will give, if not now, at some point in the future. Lifetime is a bold claim. I’m being cynical but this smells like an attempt to get a whole lotta buzz.
I also do not buy the Swiss marketing. You know how you know a company is Swiss? They’ll tell you. 100% of the time, every time.
That said, I think Swiss laws are great and immune to a lot of bullshit.
Edit: I meant free in absolute sense. There are some relatively free things out there. For example: readthedocs.org, but runs on donations from big companies like Microsoft. Same with GitHub (free private repos after Microsoft acquisition). Perhaps Ik is big enough to afford to build goodwill through free email? I know Apple is getting a lot of flak lately, but iCloud email is also “free” and not adtech driven.
Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland
#46Is there a https://killedbygoogle.com/ equivalent for startups that promised 'forever'/'lifetime' service and then shut down a few years later?
I am a Lindows OS Lifetime License holder. I disregard the fact the company/product is gone. I will forever be a license holder...
Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland
#47Is "ik" referring to the Dutch "I"? Regardless of the reason, I'm biased to like the name already ;-)
Haha no, but makes sense.
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#48Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland
#49Email will never be secure, since it is not end-to-end encrypted. Regardless of the service you use, your data is sitting on a server available in plaintext to someone who has the keys. We need to move on from email.
Or just encrypt our emails.
Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland
#50"This offer is currently only available in Switzerland and requires a swiss phone number." As such, this should not be on HN.
Should all the US-only services be banned from HN as well? Quite a good chunk of links would be gone from the frontpage, including all the news sites that have EU IPs blocked due to GDPR.
Yes