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PeerBox, the first fully P2P secure email system
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this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2026
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Only contacts can message you. Yes, it technically almost eliminates the possibility of spam, but it also means you explicitly have to exchange data first. So, no "here's my email address, you can send it to me there", no "do you have XYZ's address", no "I lost access to my previous address, this is my new one". I realize all of these scenarios can be seen as risks, but they're still important in day to day life and will be a major hindrance to adoption.
You're right, it's a trade-off. PeerBox was designed with maximum privacy as the priority, and that does mean giving up some of the convenience of traditional email. But that convenience is exactly what makes email so vulnerable to spam, phishing and surveillance in the first place. PeerBox isn't trying to replace email for everything, it's built for people who need communications that no one else can access or intercept.