[Cryptography] Well Known Bad Idea: ask users to make security decisions, or If you *work* for Apple, please update your email software

[John Levine]

 [[ probably not worth sending to the list ]]

It appears that Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> said:
>Apple has "enshitified" email, because they don't want Apple users talking to anyone
>outside their "walled gardenXXXXXXprison" -- just look at their blue v. green "bubbles"
>on text messages.

I dunno about you but I exchange email with icloud.com and me.com
users every day without any trouble. While I may have my own opinions
about Apple's mail programs, they are hardly the only ones to show the
display name rather than the address. Gmail, Thunderbird abd Outlook
do too.

The blue and green bubbles show whether a message is E2E encrypted,
which seems like a reasonable idea to me.

R's,
John