Slightly off-topic, but how do people here think Yandex search stacks up against Google? I mostly use DuckDuckGo at this point, but I like to have several alternatives and Google is not going to be one of them anymore.
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#22In Soviet Russia, your mail reads the KGB.
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#23I actually think Yandex is a good alternative. Assume that all countries have similar projects like PRISM. Which one would you rather have: your country spying on you or a foreign country? If your country is spying on you, it can use the data it gathers against you in a court, etc. If it's a foreign country, what could they possibly do?
Sell it to your country?
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#25I'm sure the FSB and SVR are only looking at the metadata.
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#26So is this post just an excuse to make snarky comments or is there a point you're trying to make?
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#27I actually think Yandex is a good alternative. Assume that all countries have similar projects like PRISM. Which one would you rather have: your country spying on you or a foreign country? If your country is spying on you, it can use the data it gathers against you in a court, etc. If it's a foreign country, what could they possibly do?
Technically, the FISA law being used by the NSA to capture phone records doesn't generate evidence that is easily used in court. If you're not a legitimate foreign target, you can suppress evidence that originates from FISA, and the NSA is obligated to destroy evidence it inadvertently collects on citizens.
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#28KGB is much better than NSA: they simply don't have money for data processing on that scale. Yandex Mail is a great competitor to gmail, some things even work better -- you've got a separate list of thread's attachments, ability to unsubscribe from whole spam categories in one click, SMS (maybe only in russia) and so on
A quick search found estimates for the FSB's budget in 2005 was over 60 billion rubles, which would have been about $2 billion USD back then.
http://www.agentura.ru/english/experts/safranchuk/
That seems like a very healthy budget to me.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a dangerous assumption to make, many world governments may have purchased intelligence from the NSA and now they'll have to re-allocate funds for locally-sourced intelligence.
Outsource your domestic spying to the NSA cloud! EDIT: How do we do it? By saving money on counter-intelligence! it's a win-win!
Only until patio11 convince them to increase the monthly price 10-fold.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a Slashdot in-joke, actually.
It's actually a Yakov Smirnoff joke, but either way it doesn't really advance the conversation very much.
Yup, the original was:
“In America, you can always find a party.
In Soviet Russia, Party always finds you!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff#Russian_reversa...