InnerScientist

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[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

but I often have to use email on other people's computers

why?

public computers have usb drive access disabled

But why would you ever want to log in to your private e-mail on a public computer?

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Luckely we're not relying on emails for security relevant and or private information, right?

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

The emails are unencrypted, emails in transit are in transit between the e-mail servers and relays and use secure tls channels.
They are only encrypted from your phone/notebook/browser to the server, then when send they will be encrypted till the next server.

Every server/relay first decrypts everything send to it, because it has to due to the TLS terminating at each server.

See also your source:

Transport Encryption: This form of encryption is used to secure your emails while they are transmitted over the internet. Most of today’s email services, including Gmail, employ transport layer security (TLS) to protect emails in transit. While it encrypts emails between servers, it doesn’t protect the content once it reaches the recipient’s inbox.^1^

In practical terms, Your e-mail server, your e-mail servers relay (if it has any) and your recipients relay server/server can all read your email unless

End-to-End Encryption (E2EE): E2EE takes encryption a step further. It ensures that only the sender and the recipient can decrypt and read the emails. Even the email service provider cannot access the contents of the email. E2EE is typically achieved through third-party encryption tools or services.^1^

Which takes active effort from both the sender and the recipient to make work - it's almost only possible with people you know and little else.

^1^ https://umatechnology.org/gmails-new-encryption-can-make-email-safer-heres-why-you-should-use-it/

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can use caddy-l4 to redirect some traffic before (or after) tls and to different ports and hosts depending on FQDN.

Though that is still experimental.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (13 children)

Only thing I can comment on is that 99% of all E-Mails you will get are unencrypted and can be read by your relay. (There are few e2e encrypted emails being send.)

So either trust them or don't use a relay.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Step 1: Get write access to the project you dislike.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

They don't have quantum in the name.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Security vs having someone to message.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

From the mailing list I'm reading that kernel maintainers have heard a few companies looking for something like this, so yes?

Edit:

However, to be clear, the Hornet LSM proposed here seems very reasonable to me and I would have no conceptual objections to merging it upstream. Based on off-list discussions I believe there is a lot of demand for something like this, and I believe many people will be happy to have BPF signature verification in-tree.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Preventing kernel modifications to expand upon the work done for kernel lockdown. Add additional layers to system security.

Kernel_lockdown:

prevent both direct and indirect access to a running kernel image, attempting to protect against unauthorized modification of the kernel image and to prevent access to security and cryptographic data located in kernel memory, [...]

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I recommend switching to NixOS only after you have a basic but broad understanding of Linux, many things in NixOS are more complicated than in "normal" Linux, which is needed to archive what it does, but is overwhelming for someone who doesn't know the what and why and where that using Linux brings.

A picture showing the NixOS learning curve/cliff

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Sell their houses to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?!

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