On Sun 10 Jan 2016 13:53:43 NZDT +1300, criggie wrote: > This GMX claim is "secure-washing" at best.
GMX is a LOT further than any NZ ISP will be for some time. The large European (or at least the German) ISPs agreed a while ago to raise minimum standards: * Email amongst each other is only transported on encrypted channels. * Plain text logins (IMAP, POP, SMTP, anything) will be shut down after a certain date (which has long passed). * (I believe) The really useless ciphers won't be used any more. I'm not too worried about email sitting unencrypted on a continental- European server, especially a German one. They operate under privacy legislation Kiwis can only dream of. For anything better I use gpg. ISPs in this neck of the woods seem to argue "it's always insecure, so why do anything". I know one who can't even install certificates properly, customers insisting on ecrypted logins seem to be a rare species - i.e. encryption is optional and not even encouraged. Pathetic. Technically calling GMX "secure" is incorrect, but "much more secure" is definitely true. Btw I noticed that Posteo has put up an English user interface. They are about as good as it gets. http://posteo.nz Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
