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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
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"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: 2) by shortscreen on Saturday January 05 2019, @10:34AM (1 child)

    by shortscreen (2252) on Saturday January 05 2019, @10:34AM (#782464) Journal

    Are they making the world's first VR, AI, HD, multi touch, enterprise, web scale, green, mobile, cloud, LSS, ISS, LGBT, ASMR, AARP email client or what? Are 13 of the people wardrobe consultants, nutrition advisors, and makeup artists?

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  • (Score: 2) by Subsentient on Saturday January 05 2019, @03:36PM

    by Subsentient (1111) on Saturday January 05 2019, @03:36PM (#782521) Homepage Journal

    Well, Thunderbird is actually a huge codebase, and takes a lot of stuff straight out of Firefox. So it makes some sense.
    I'm glad to have more people working on it, actually.

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