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Originally Posted by correo
I respect what fastmail says about their approach to privacy, and I believe them. Nonetheless, if a law enforcement official showed up with a warrant or put a gun to their head, so to speak, they would be capable of turning over my plaintext emails. With the systems I describe from other providers, they are only capable of turning over encrypted data.
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If a government agency wanted your email that badly, they could and probably would get your email provider to copy all your incoming and outgoing mail silently in the background before storing an encrypted copy in your inbox. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Game over.
As long as end-to-end encryption is not employed, your email host has the possibility to see all your incoming and outgoing email at some point. And if they do, so does anyone they (are coerced to) cooperate with. PGP or the like is the only solution to that problem.
Don't know why, but I'm reminded of this. :-)
https://xkcd.com/538/