Email is closer to a digital postcard than a sealed letter, and mainstream providers like Gmail read and analyze everything that's inside.
Unfortunately, email isn’t going anywhere in our society because it’s baked into how the digital world communicates, but luckily, there are ways to make your emails more private.
One tool that you can use is called PGP.
In this video, I'll explain what PGP is and show you how providers like Protonmail make it super easy to encrypt the contents of every email you send.
Phil Zimmerman said in his original PGP user guide text “Why I Wrote PGP” in 1991 that: “PGP empowers people to take their privacy into their own hands. There has been a growing social need for it".
That statement remains even more resounding today.
The builders of privacy tools risk a lot to create tools that protect us all. It's up to us to use them.
Chapters
0:00 Email Was Never Built for Privacy
00:50 What is PGP
02:17 How PGP Works
06:43 Proton Tutorial
07:03 In-Network Emails
07:42 Out-of-Network Password Protected Emails
09:00 Out-of-Network PGP Protected Emails
10:37 Importing PGP Keys
11:49 Exporting and Sharing PGP Keys
12:35 How to Share Your Public Key
14:56 Phil Zimmerman and The Ludlow Institute
