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Gmail closes door on NSA; all email now encrypted (majorgeeks.com)
6 points by edward on March 22, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



What is with this constant stream of bullshit pro-Google articles, each of which is successively less clearly worded and makes a stronger anti-NSA claim which was non-existent in the in the original Google announcement? Nothing about the announcement makes me think GMail is any safer than it was before. Bruce Schneier has talked extensively about how the surveillance state is robust, politically, legally and technically:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/how_the_nsa_t...


But the emails are still not encrypted as they reside on the servers, no? In other words they are still just a quick FISA 70[234] away for NSA.




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