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Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises

posted by mrpg on Friday January 04 2019, @08:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the uy788*++ç+´] dept.

"exec" writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

[...] When the Mozilla Foundation decided to turn the email client loose in May 2017, its future looked doubtful, but it's still here and, according to this post by community manager Ryan Sipes, donations are flowing freely enough for Thunderbird to expand its development team.

The current eight personnel are to be expanded to 14, and one of the roles to be resourced is an engineer who will focus on security and privacy.

"The UX/UI around encryption and settings will get an overhaul in the coming year," Sipes wrote.

While he couldn't guarantee that effort making it into the next release, "It is our hope to make encrypting Email and ensuring your private communication easier in upcoming releases."

-- submitted from IRC

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday January 04 2019, @08:49PM (5 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday January 04 2019, @08:49PM (#782226) Journal

    Until the recipient gives up the goods [nytimes.com]

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Friday January 04 2019, @09:03PM (4 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday January 04 2019, @09:03PM (#782236) Journal

    It's not a perfect security measure for those with good reasons to be paranoid, that's for sure. But some agencies would hate to see millions of people start using "easy" end-to-end encryption.

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    • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Friday January 04 2019, @10:47PM (1 child)

      by coolgopher (1157) on Friday January 04 2019, @10:47PM (#782274)

      But some agencies would hate to see millions of people start using "easy" end-to-end encryption.

      That's how you get fun laws [abc.net.au] like down-under...

      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday January 05 2019, @12:31AM

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday January 05 2019, @12:31AM (#782327) Journal

        Tech industry needs to go underground. If they're "angry and confused", it's only because they have to cough up a new and completely different PR campaign. At least the open source people can release stuff anonymously. Let's hope the voters in the *five eyes* countries reverse themselves and put a lid on it some day.

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    • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday January 04 2019, @11:54PM (1 child)

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday January 04 2019, @11:54PM (#782309) Journal

      But some agencies would hate to see millions of people start using "easy" end-to-end encryption.

      I'm sure they would, but they have nothing to worry about as long as we are tethered to an ISP that will eventually only permit government approved protocols and content over their networks if serviceable encryption ever becomes widely popular. Ad hoc networking over the WAN is our only hope for secure accessible communications. Encryption is moot when you get cut off.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @02:52PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @02:52PM (#782509)

        And that's when you get creative with tunneling and encapsulation.