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		mcv on April 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why can't my mom email me? Why make unencrypted the default? For https, encrypted has become the default. Users don't need to understand certificates at all, but it works. We should have the same for email. But that does require all clients to make this easy for the user.

PurestGuava on April 12, 2024 | [–]

We should have the same for email.

But we don't. And while we don't, users have a reasonable expectation that they can send an email and the other person can read it.

lxgr on April 11, 2024 | [–]

HTTPS is transport-level encryption. If that's your benchmark, email is encrypted by default today – in that most SMTP connections are TLS-encrypted.

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