[PLUG-TALK] Alternative to Gmail?

[wes]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 2:25 PM Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Feb 2020, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> > This is not my bank account we're talking about here, it's just a
> > freaking e-mail account.
>
> I have no answer to your larger question. I run a VM at Digital Ocean
> to manage my own e-mail; I'm odd like that.
>
> It's worth noting that these days a Google account is not even
> remotely "just a freaking e-mail account." It allows authenticated
> access to Google's other services: Docs, Drive, Calendar, YouTube,
> etc., etc.
>
> If someone stole your credentials, they could leave your e-mail
> completely untouched and still cause you so much trouble, using those
> credentials to
>
>
All that, PLUS if they did get into your email, it's a short trip from
there to get into your bank accounts, etc.

Treating email like a security concern is a wise thing to do. Google may go
a bit far with it, I've been locked out in very inconvenient ways also. But
I have to agree that "email is just email" is no longer an accurate view.

-wes
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