Open Sourcers Pitch Secure Email in Dark Age of PRISM

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3. This is unlikely to solve the metadata problem

This pricey new project sounds like a lot of bluster from people who don't know any better... all because Thunderbird doesn't come with TorBirdy and Enigmail built-in??

Entities like the NSA can still track, collect and make sense of the headers of PGP-encrypted email.

Most early adopters and other techies don't use or advocate PGP for email because they're afraid when they start signing all their outgoing email it will look like an ASCII bird pooped all over their messages. Creating Mailpile won't change the fact that other email clients display PGP portions in messages as a mess.

And why do we want to stick with the old email protocol anyway? Projects like I2P-Bote already have working alphas out and it doesn't rely on centralized email servers at all, providing comprehensive end-to-end privacy.