I wish there was a way to nest emails the way tor nests traffic or using tor+vpn means neither could associate traffic with the person even if either was compromised. Or tor+vpn+https means nobody knows anything. Then tor doesn't even know the content.
I guess it would have to utilize end to end encryption which is hard because people don't know how to utilize that in email or refuse to universally adopt it.
Maybe I should build it. Yeah. One more thing to build. If you want to have end-to-end encryption and not have people have to touch it it would have to be a desktop application. And then you can use a regular email provider with tor plus encrypted content as sort of a persistent dead drop.
IDK, maybe everyone should just adopt tor-mail. IDK, maybe everyone should just adopt tor for everything. Why is it normal to be giving any meta-data to anyone if you have technology to not do that? Why do browsers even bother with user-agents? How does that benefit the majority of web users when responsive CSS is a thing and most sites never use that information for anything useful except to see that something is a robot. Ok, robots can put something inside of the user-agent header then.
We are all sharing meta-data that doesn't benefit us at all to share, to the point that if you remove it, now you stand out. Let's all remove our useragents together. Or better yet, have that not be a thing that browsers do by default. Browsers should be designed exclusively around the user's interests, and not the website owners.
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