U.S. Government Compels Google To Hand Over Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data
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Re: U.S. Government Compels Google To Hand Over Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data
#2A good (but already known) reason to leave gmail.
Re: U.S. Government Compels Google To Hand Over Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data
#3Now the question is: What major options do privacy advocates have apart from hosting their own mailservers?
Re: U.S. Government Compels Google To Hand Over Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data
#4A good (but already known) reason to leave gmail.
How is it a gmail only problem? The government got a court order to force them, Google didn't hand it over willingly. It's the government who is at fault here and the shitty laws that enable it.
Re: U.S. Government Compels Google To Hand Over Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data
#5Now the question is: What major options do privacy advocates have apart from hosting their own mailservers?
The slow and often fruitfulness process of changing the law.
Re: U.S. Government Compels Google To Hand Over Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data
#6Now the question is: What major options do privacy advocates have apart from hosting their own mailservers?
hosting their own mailservers are great!
Re: U.S. Government Compels Google To Hand Over Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data
#7Now the question is: What major options do privacy advocates have apart from hosting their own mailservers?
Even if you host it yourself but at a regular hosting provider "they" might just confiscate your servers. Increasing email encryption usability might be the road out of this dilemma. Otherwise email encryption is going to stay within a very small circle of users.
Re: U.S. Government Compels Google To Hand Over Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data
#8Now the question is: What major options do privacy advocates have apart from hosting their own mailservers?
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Re: U.S. Government Compels Google To Hand Over Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data
#9A good (but already known) reason to leave gmail.
This only makes sense if you get a server at an off-shore host for mail, instead of using major email providers.
Re: U.S. Government Compels Google To Hand Over Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data
#10Now the question is: What major options do privacy advocates have apart from hosting their own mailservers?
Even if you host it yourself but at a regular hosting provider "they" might just confiscate your servers. Increasing email encryption usability might be the road out of this dilemma. Otherwise email encryption is going to stay within a very small circle of users.
When I said "Host your own" I meant on a physically secure box using full disk encryption.
But I do like the idea of encryption, GPG does this really well already but key distribution is still a problem.
Just an idea for a secure physical box: Throw in a external "always on" GPS receiver on the box and have it physically destroy the hard drive if it is outside of a certain area or if it detects a certain amount of movement (think someone removing it from a rack without disabling the service first). If your server was moved/confiscated it would ensure some safety. Just a tinfoil thought.