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Why Open Source Matters For Sensitive Email

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @01:57PM from the better-mail dept.

Jason Baker writes Can you really trust your email provider? And even if you self-host your email server, can you really trust its security if you can't see the code? Over on Opensource.com, Olivier Thierry makes three cases for using open source to power your email solution: The power of numbers, the value of trust, and the importance of leverage.

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Paranoia abound by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-10 14:03 · Score: 4, Interesting

Can you really trust your email provider?
Yes, because I'm not a paranoid idiot. If someone wanted to do something malicious with your email, they probably could anyway, because so much of the world's email servers transmit in plaintext, the provider (other than the choice of one that does encrypt when possible) is the least of my concerns.