Advocating for privacy in Australia
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Advocating for privacy in Australia
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#2Fastmail should relocate to Canada. Just throwing suggestions out there.
Re: Advocating for privacy in Australia
#3Fastmail should relocate to Canada. Just throwing suggestions out there.
I didn't think Canada was doing much better than us (Australia) with these kind of crazy, over-reaching laws. You'd probably have to find somewhere in Europe.
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#4This completely erodes the point of end-to-end encryption.
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#5Fastmail should relocate to Canada. Just throwing suggestions out there.
I didn't think Canada was doing much better than us (Australia) with these kind of crazy, over-reaching laws. You'd probably have to find somewhere in Europe.
Switzerland might be better as not part of five eyes.
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#6This completely erodes the point of end-to-end encryption.
What does? Fastmail never offered end to end encryption
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#7Good writeup. Since I can already see not everyone here actually read the article, here are some highlights.
> Law enforcement has always been able to request information from us through the Telecommunications Act with a lawful warrant. Because we have the ability to decrypt all data, there is no need to make changes that circumvent encryption. ... While FastMail is not directly affected, we don’t support this legislation because it carries serious implications for the Australian tech industry.
> Of course, should our users choose to end-to-end encrypt their mail via PGP, we have no way to access that content, even under the AABill. Our blog explains why we have never offered PGP ourselves, and describes third-party PGP tools you can use with FastMail if you wish to manage your own encryption.
The second one in particular highlights to me the fact that whilst there are many downsides to the legislation, any serious culprits i.e. state actors or organised crime have many counter moves, severely limiting the upside - something all tech people knew anyway.
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#8Fastmail should relocate to Canada. Just throwing suggestions out there.
Damn, I just lost $100. Thanks. We had a bet on how long it would take for somebody to say "just relocate your entire company and all your staff's lives to another jurisdiction".
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#9This completely erodes the point of end-to-end encryption.
If you really want your encryption, use GPG, and have the people you send to use it as well.
It's one of the few ways to ensure privacy between two people who trust each other.
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#10The ability to use standard protocols (IMAP and SMTP) is much more important to me than end-to-end encryption. I won't even touch an email service that doesn't support IMAP with a 10-foot pole no matter how secure they claim it is. I know some people are developing self-hosted gateways that can speak IMAP on the local side and a more secure protocol on the public side, and I think it shows promise. But the whole setup still feels way too fragile compared to good old email.
I've been using FastMail for 11 years now, and I've recommended it to several other people. I will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.