You should assume that US and Israeli intelligence services can read everything in your Protonmail.

Other encrypted webmail providers should also be regarded with suspicion for similar reasons

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      I’ve been told good things about self-hosting via Mail-in-the-Box, I’ve been looking into hosting mail on Alibaba Cloud to allow for more bureaucratic hurdles, but I haven’t done much there. Get people to use GPG with everything possible

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        To clarify, my own mail server on Alibaba Cloud

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          I’ve always thought about doing this, but I’m too lazy. If its sites I have to sign up for, then I just use a non-US email, and if its personal convos with ppl, I just use matrix or signal. Its really unfortunate that encryption was an afterthought with email.

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          GNU Privacy Guard, the GNU Project’s implementation of OpenPGP (Pretty Good Privacy)

          You form a web of trust with other people, sign each other’s keys, and can use it to encrypt any file, including emails

          You use Windows, Linux, or macOS?

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            windows and mac. this is interesting, but I doubt i could get any family or friends to use that kind of thing with me. They already think I’m weird for using a VPN