Mailpile: crowdfunding a secure, private email client/cloud service

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I’m not expert but it seems like there are a bunch of issues with this.

  1. Once you send a email at least 2 parties are involved. You and the person at the other end. You have no guarantee the person at the other end is encrypting their email. In fact you have no guarantee they aren’t directly forwarding a copy to the NSA “to fight terrorism”

  2. Google has such great spam countermeasures because they can see all the spam sent to all the gmail addresses. This system will only see one person’s email at a time making it very difficult to counter spam to the same level as gmail.

  3. They claim a web-mail application which suggests using a browser to read email. But browsers download JavaScript which means a man-in-the-middle attack can always insert its own JavaScript.