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why there is no tutanota in your list? Do you know something compromising it? upd: tutanota is among recommended by https://www.privacytools.io/providers/email/
I don't have any email providers in there, seems kinda risky because nearly every one after a few years seems to get compromised. Email wasn't really designed with encryption in mind like all of these new comms platforms like matrix.
Tutanota, anyways, is propietary in server side.
you know, after reading several posts on c/privacy I have such an impression that one can trust nothing: either closed-source servers or OTF funding or wrong location :)
And it is right but you can still choose the lower bad thing and even try to obtain that ideal step by step.
one of currently popular/active posts regarding funding of privacy oriented tools staggered me. I have never heard of OTF and BBG before and was really surprised that briar got funding 3! times from them. What do you personally think, is this fact corrupts briar itself?
Never trust - verify. And services that depend on proprietary server-side solutions are not verifiable. You can't verify that they run the code on their servers - not even if the code is openly available. That's why people self-host.
Tutanota is very trustworthy in my opinion. Many people in the dark web use it as their to-go email service there (I learned this while searching for places to buy THC online).
I don't understand how being used makes it better.
I would prefer to recommend Riseup or even Disroot instead.
I don't know about Riseup. After what happened in 2016 (click), I've been kind of wary of them.
https://riseup.net/en/canary https://riseup.net/about-us/press/canary-statement
Ah, good to know. Thanks.
What about Posteo?
They promote to use clean energies but as far I know, their services are provided with propietary software or it is mostly unknown.
Edited: At least in their e-mail service they promote to be fully open source, the only issue is that they references to the client side later when referencing js licenses which makes it a bit sad.
I didn't see any other mention to FLOSS.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201209/03061645849/german-court-orders-encrypted-email-service-tutanota-to-backdoor-one-account.shtml