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I highly recommend people use encrypted email and messaging apps for communications. Years ago, I worked on the Edward Snowden NSA document stories. As part of this I learned very intimately how damaging that surveillance can be. The ability to read someones messages is really the ability to have full power over their life.

Most people's respond to this by thinking that they have nothing to hide and are not that interesting. But no one really knows where their life may be headed in future, or where their children or others around them might head. Having a giant database of your information sitting out there allows that it might  one day be weaponized against you. There is a concept of "databases of ruin" which means that if someone has full access to all your messages they can cherrypick any image of you that they like, even if you feel its mostly false. I've seen that done in courtrooms.

Use Signal and use ProtonMail. They're easy, and it'll let you and those around you fight tyranny with one small step.

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