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I use Gmail for most things, because in terms of account security it's probably the best in the world.

I do not use email for discussing sensitive topics. It is not the right tool for the job.

Does anyone use gmail + PGP ? if the two parties understand how to send encrypted messages over web clients, isn't that still secure ? I haven't heard much about PGP for the past 5+ years. I realize PGP itself isn't a protocol, but there used to be a system where you'd publish your public key (irrespective of what protocol (RSA, ECDSA, etc) you use) somewhere and anyone could send you encrypted messages and paste the base64 text into insecure clients.

> if the two parties understand how to send encrypted messages over web clients, isn't that still secure ?

It is secure, except that metadata are open go Google. And metadata is the new data nowadays.

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