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Ask HN: Why Are We Ignoring the Urgent Need for End-to-End Encrypted Emails?
We're all obsessed with making sure our chat apps like WhatsApp and Signal have end-to-end encryption (E2E), but we completely ignore emails. Emails can reveal a person's entire life story, far more than any chat app ever could.
Right now, if you want your emails to be E2E encrypted, you have to jump through hoops with third-party tools. It's clear that email giants like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are raking in profits and don't want to disrupt their spyware operations by adding E2E. It's infuriating! I demand to see E2E encryption as a standard for emails within my lifetime.