On Thu, 2021-04-15 at 17:00 +0000, bo0od wrote:
To be honest i find this bad thing to use emails to do anything rather
than online registration and not necessary stuff (means being
encrypted,manipulated.. just not something important)
To be honest, I find it a bad thing that many projects (I'm looking at
GitHub here (*)) only have a web interface, that require registration
(and often have terms of service I would consider criminal). Then there
are multiple web sites requiring registration that I need to keep track
of.
(*) Ok, GitHub has e-mail notifications. But I can't directly reply to them,
I need to go to the web interface. At least, that was the case N years
ago.
I like being able to perform all asynchronuous communication via e-mail,
instead of via a dozen platforms. With e-mail, you get signing ‘for free’,
while with $PLATFORMS, you need to rely on each $PLATFORM infrastructure
or resort to ...
(my intepretation of your words, out of context, with encryption replaced with
signing)
extra tools, where you have to copy the message into the tool, let the
tool verify the signature. Or write a message into the tool, let the
tool create the signature, and copy the message+signature into the web
interface.
Email sucks due to:
* Messages are not encrypted by default which mean it need an extra tool
to do it and commonly used is GPG/PGP + it needs tool to implement this
encryption on the messages which mean mail reader/client most commonly
one used is thunderbird/icedove <- This method having tremendous
security issues check for example: [...]
Not relevant for our purposes. Issues are public. Only PGP for signing is
relevant here. Also, PGP + Evolution works just fine for me, and evolution
doesn't download external attachements by default.
* Most of the time (not always) heavily rely on clearnet which mean
issues of TLS/DNS which needs to be hardened otherwise they are exist by
names but does nothing.
I couldn't parse this. What does ‘they are exist by names but does nothing’
mean?
..This is out of scope to discuss this in details, I just want to see
the bug URL linked to the bottom of the email i receive thats it.
Guix' bug tracking software is ‘GNU Bug Tracker’. You could ask it on
that project's mailing lists. Now I see you did that already:
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-debbugs/2021-04/msg00000.html>.
I don't have anything else to say on this topic; I'm not sending further
replies.
Greetings,
Maxime.