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Well for one, email is inherently insecure, so not sure if the fediverse can learn from that. It’s already not private.
It's not inherently insecure. There are secure email services but all parties have to be using it.
Exactly, that was my point. Email as it is, is insecure, because you can’t encrypt it and make it work universally unless everyone else does.
Exactly, that was my point. That means it is not inherently insecure.
English isn’t my first language so I might be using “inherently” incorrectly, but I thought it means:
So in its basic and natural form, email is not secure. It wasn’t designed as such. Full E2E encryption was only implemented recently by certain providers within their own domains, and won’t work across the board unless all of them cooperate, which won’t happen.
"Inherently" means essentially "no matter how you do it". If you use an encrypted email provider to send a message to another user on another encrypted email provider, it's perfectly secure. Ergo, it's not "inherent".
It definitely works across domains. All you have to do is point your domain at your preferred secure email provider.
It doesn't need to.