Stop Using Encrypted Email
Y&#x27;know, you can have all the valid points in the world and still come on a _bit_ too strong.<p>I get the point the author is making re: LARPing, but this kind of attitude and tone is bordering (or, bluntly: is) condescending to anyone who doesn&#x27;t know as much as you. It&#x27;s a huge shame because the general discussions surrounding privacy&#x2F;security are absolutely rampant with paranoid bullshit, and stuff like this just doesn&#x27;t help. The people you consider to be LARPing might honestly just be new to the idea of security&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;encryption&#x2F;(insert your label here) and would be better served by a tone where you&#x27;re not talking down to them, especially if you&#x27;re an established authority.<p>Personally speaking, I use encrypted email for my personal account - but I&#x27;m under no big illusions about it, and at this point it&#x27;s partly out of laziness as I find moving email providers to be a useless exercise in wasting time. My original use case was my wife and I wanting to send documents back and forth easily, have it encrypted and retained somewhere that&#x27;s (relatively) easily searchable, and isn&#x27;t one of the bigger email services. Email is a workflow that goes back decades, and I&#x27;m not particularly interested in changing that mental mapping in my brain (a feeling I suspect many would echo).<p>It&#x27;s email. It&#x27;s not encrypted or 100% private if I email my buddy who&#x27;s using Gmail&#x2F;etc. It does jack all for my bills, newsletters, and so on. I&#x27;m not worried about the metadata not being encrypted because if I needed that level of security, I&#x27;d use Signal or some other tool.<p>You&#x27;re probably right that it can&#x27;t be &quot;fixed&quot;, but there&#x27;s also nothing wrong with attempting marginal improvements until an eventual replacement comes along. It remains a convenient &quot;it just fucking works&quot; and until something replaces that, and interoperates with the rest of the way the world actually works, it&#x27;s probably not changing.<p>My 2c, at least.