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Open email ... will it be a game changer? (www.open.email)

submitted 21 hours ago by trilobite@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Just come across this. Haven't dug too deep but sounds like an interesting opportunity. I think it can only succeed if it is fully compliant with current systems. Seems to only be mobile clients. No desktop? Are big tech going to permit this to grow? It would shut down a data mining opportunity ...

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[–] arch 9 points 13 hours ago

It's definitely not going to be. The most radical attempt to revolutionize email protocol that has been accepted is Tuta, where they use TutaCrypt instead of OpenPGP. And they are like being criticized af, because nobody actually wants to use TutaCrypt to replace standard encryption protocol. And you still get to send email to others with Tuta, which you can't even do with open.email. I am quite pessimistic on open.email's future.