What do you think about the following reasoning?
I am thinking that now most mail is sent by electronic means and that we could remove the “e” from email.
This would allow the SAFEnetwork to distinguish its mail service from the old insecure email system that people have used for around 30 years or more. Even encrypted email is stored on servers and just waiting for the ABC’s to crack/hach/social engineer there way into.
SAFE Mail is really a new product the likes of which the world has not seen. Not only is it encrypted end-to-end but the sender is verified before you even “open” the mail.
The only things (bar 1) that are the same between email and (SAFE) mail is what the mail APP makes the same. And the thing that is the same is information has been sent electronically from one account to another.
- The addressing is different - sent directly to the recipient (no email servers)
- There is no way for any 3rd party to EVEN know the mail was sent (at the moment even encrypted mail can be tracked)
- The mail is encrypted end-to-end without user intervention or even needing to know it has been encrypted.
- The sender is verified by the system with no user intervention required. Spoofing is eliminated although mistakes could be made with similar looking names, but once you tell your APP the name is OK then no more mistakes.
- And so on.
It really is a different beast to the current email we now send/receive on the clear web and why not change for the future and refer to SAFE mail as “mail” and leave off the redundant “e” since 99% of mail is electronic and since the user is on a computer its pretty obviously electronic. The “e” was added in the early days when electronic mail represented less than 1% of the mail.