On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 21:15:46 -0400 Barry Warsaw <ba...@list.org> wrote:
> Is anybody even aware of any mainstream mobile email readers that > support encryption? One of my friends uses K9 on his Samsung mobile phone; it works fine for him, allowing him to exchange GPG-encrypted emails with me. If you need more examples, I could ask on the (encrypted, Schleuder-based) internal mailing list of Digital Society Switzerland. > An encrypted mailing list won't help you much regardless of the > compromised nature of your device if you can't even read the > encrypted messages. ;) Personally I prefer to use my mobile phone for plain old telephony and SMS only; I lovingly refer to it as "my dumbphone". I believe that the risk of compromise is much, much lower than for Internet-connected smartphones, even without taking any special security precautions in relation to the dumbphone. By contrast, a laptop running Debian GNU/Linux can be kept secure enough for my needs without too much trouble even while communicating via the Internet with somewhat-trusted as well as with totally untrusted third parties. That is good enough for me, because I don't have a need to be online continually while awake; it suffices for me to be able to ensure that I'll be able to live up to a commitment of having promised 24hrs turn-around reaction time for anything that may be relatively urgent. A laptop computer is sufficiently mobile for ensuring that, as long as I don't travel to really remote areas. Greetings, Norbert _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9