Is Yandex Mail more secure and private than Gmail?

#1

Post by confusedev » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 1:45 PM UTC

What do you think HN?

Yandex Mail + Thunderbird

https://mail.yandex.com https://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/

Re: Is Yandex Mail more secure and private than Gmail?

#2

Post by rasterizer » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 1:51 PM UTC

It depends on who you prefer should read them: Obama or Putin, the CIA or the KGB.

Re: Is Yandex Mail more secure and private than Gmail?

#3

Post by confusedev » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 1:56 PM UTC

I think we can send a message to Google and other corporations involved with the NSA if we start using alternative providers like Yandex or otherwise.

Re: Is Yandex Mail more secure and private than Gmail?

#4

Post by mtgx » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 2:04 PM UTC

rasterizer wrote: post #2

It depends on who you prefer should read them: Obama or Putin, the CIA or the KGB.

I don't think that many countries have anything to fear about Russia, even if they do spy on them. I think they have quite a bit to fear if US spies on them and their leaders. I'd be shocked if all that spying wasn't used to blackmail other country leaders in some way.

Re: Is Yandex Mail more secure and private than Gmail?

#5

Post by ScottWhigham » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 2:22 PM UTC

mtgx wrote: post #4

rasterizer wrote: post #2

It depends on who you prefer should read them: Obama or Putin, the CIA or the KGB.

I don't think that many countries have anything to fear about Russia, even if they do spy on them. I think they have quite a bit to fear if US spies on them and their leaders. I'd be shocked if all that spying wasn't used to blackmail other country leaders in some way.

That's a lot of assumptions on your part that you are expecting us to buy into/believe along with you. Russia is the 8th-10th largest GDP in the world (depending on which list you read at what time) - they're hardly the "tiny nation that could not intimidate anyone else" that your post makes them out to be.

Re: Is Yandex Mail more secure and private than Gmail?

#6

Post by stromeyer3 » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 9:37 PM UTC

confusedev wrote: post #3

I think we can send a message to Google and other corporations involved with the NSA if we start using alternative providers like Yandex or otherwise.

How about some kind of Snapchat-like email service

Re: Is Yandex Mail more secure and private than Gmail?

#7

Post by junto » Tue, Jun 11, 2013, 2:19 PM UTC

stromeyer3 wrote: post #6

confusedev wrote: post #3

I think we can send a message to Google and other corporations involved with the NSA if we start using alternative providers like Yandex or otherwise.

How about some kind of Snapchat-like email service

I've just started an Ask HN for European alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5861717