Quote from: PowerGlove on Today at 05:07:25 PM

Changing the subject abruptly, I may as well use this post to ask (the forum) a question that's been on my mind for a while now: Is anyone else bothered by SMF externalizing PMs? As in, does anyone else find it odd that, on the one hand, the highest bug bounty ($60K, currently) on Bitcointalk relates to PM privacy, but, on the other hand, and in the name of convenience, the PMs you send are likely being re-sent to some outside server that you almost always have no dependable details on? (As in, who is the PM recipient's mailbox provider? Are you OK with that provider's data-handling policy? Are you OK with their level of programming/security competence, along with their stance on privacy to begin with? Is it Microsoft? Is it Google? Are you OK with the contents of your correspondence, either now or in the future, being used to improve their services and train their models? And so on.)

I have never worked on this subject, so my comment my be completely irrelevant.. but ...

Can't the PM have some end to end encryption? Like WhatsApp and other message software?

You could still rely on those third party servers to send the encrypted messages, but they would be encrypted, so nobody would be able to read them. Why this cant be implemented?