RL> For me, I long ago went to Tutanota for my email.  It's encrypted at
 RL> rest (so even if someone raids Tutanota's servers, they still can't read
 RL> my messages) and encrypted in transit - with more than just TLS (which
 RL> ISPs can do "main in the middle" attacks on).

It sounds good, but how can you be sure that they're encrypting it?

 RL> I use Brave as my browser - which routes traffic through a VPN, making it
 RL> harder (but not impossible) for someone to track my browsing.

I don't know how any browser can be trusted either. Browser-based spying seems like the perfect solution for the elites as they deal with people switching to private email servers, encrypted data, secure connections, etc.

 RL> Adafruit, for example, refused to sell me anything because of my
 RL> tutanota.com address.  So I simply stopped doing business with them.

That's awfully discriminatory of them. I was delighted to find google and yahoo accepting email from my (wife's) email server. It's the other big one that's putting up a fight.

Email server software is complex software. I don't understand all aspects of it. But I've got a basic setup in place and it's working nicely. It makes me realize how much of a hack the elites really are. They did what I did, but they packaged it with cellphones, and it made them famous.

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