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[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] heeplr@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

DE-mail was doomed to fail from the start. Here, they did some things right. Let's see how it turns out.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

German encrypted E-Mail service for official business (taxes and so on). Nice idea but execution was broken from start. German government doing IT is a running joke.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Pity :/ They have millions to spend.

[–] emhl@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It wasn't end to end encrypted though because that wouldn't have allowed server side virus scanning