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Re: The Future of Email

#2
I find it hard to judge how much, if at all, this will help, but I'm all for email being more secure, to the point that organizations (banks, governments, insurance companies) stop creating walled-email alternatives: please log in to our secure message center, where you can only see our messages poorly formatted, and for a short time, until we permanently delete them. I like that my Inbox is a somewhat-searchable, historical record of my life, and these alternatives break that.

Re: The Future of Email

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I find it hard to judge how much, if at all, this will help, but I'm all for email being more secure, to the point that organizations (banks, governments, insurance companies) stop creating walled-email alternatives: please log in to our secure message center, where you can only see our messages poorly formatted, and for a short time, until we permanently delete them . I like that my Inbox is a somewhat-searchable, h…

> I'm all for email being more secure, to the point that organizations (banks, governments, insurance companies) stop creating walled-email alternatives

This will literally never happen. Email doesn't support the features that those messaging platforms need to have, such as recalling messages.

The security layers are also only on the sender part, not on the receiver part, which banks care a lot more about.

Re: The Future of Email

#9
Emails are very important especially at this age of rapidly changing technological landscape.

It's important that they're secure.

Is it possible to have E2E encryption on emails?

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