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MidnightMan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If this were an attempt to “collect email addresses”, then I would not be asking people to make a new one for the sole purpose of contacting me.
The primary email mentioned in the message is with Tutanota, not Yahoo. This aids in my own compartmentalization by not publicizing my primary email, and many websites are averse to allowing signups with privacy-oriented email services with as Tuta or Proton.
It is I, MidnightMan. I will likely be the one emailing you back.
Email is insecure comms, it is required to be stored in plain text. Any keys or cryptographic elements you share over email are already compromised as soon as it’s emailed.
There are a multitude of encrypted ways to communicate. If you are attempting to reach people on lemmy I would suggest setting up a matrix server and element instance much like what was done on db0.
I don’t have skin in this game but Email itself can be clear text all you want. By using pgp with email is very much secure as the text encryption is not transparent you see the encrypted message you encrypted with their public key and need their private key to decrypt the message.
A Matrix server is one of the applications that I’m running, but I don’t let any random Joe into my place of work. Manually PGP’ed messages over email is perfectly viable for first contact.
The PGP key has to be shared plaintext… that makes it useless as anyone can sign it after that. Again email is the worst way to do this.
If you cannot host a secured and sandboxed Matrix server, I personally do not trust your security hygiene.
JD Vance was Peter Thiel’s best little buddy and he’s running Palintir.
DO NOT USE EMAIL FOR THIS.
You need the private key to sign anything. The public key is only for encrypting outgoing emails which only the person with the private key can decrypt.
People have been using PGP over email for literally decades. You do not know what you’re talking about.
This is so wrong you don’t share anything with PGP you never share a private key with anyone and you can shared your public key with anyone it’s useless without the private key.
Fuck. I thought I was paranoid.
If you cannot host a secured and sandboxed Matrix server, I personally do not trust your security hygiene.
At every step of the way, you’ve managed to speculate and assume that I’m using the worst security practices possible. Stop.
yahoo has throwaway addresses in the settings btw
match@pawb.social 1 week ago
what’s with the 1 day old account for this though
MidnightMan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The project’s launch is quite recent.
horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What project?
MidnightMan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The one to prepare the people of the United States for a fascist government to come into power, and by extension the increasingly likely prospect of a genocide.