Re:Opera is Reborn
by brianwawok on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:34AM
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Do you own a business? Perhaps have some closed source software product? Many state actors would happily lift it from your inbox and pass it to some local startups.
I think most people who either own or work at businesses hopefully would be smart/careful enough to not take this risk (for business purposes I personally would only use open-source software whenever possible, and at least try and encrypt sensitive emails or just use something with E2E like Whatsapp), but people using internet/email for non-commercial purposes (i.e. the majority of users) would probably not care what state actors did.
Might be a bit far-fetched, but an organisation that wanted Chinese companies to ultimately succeed might take and use information you are privy to at a medium to large, competing American (for example) company.
Re:Opera is Reborn
by GrinningFool on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:51AM
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You? Maybe not, I don't know much about you. But I would think out of a few million US users, they're able to turn up some useful tidbits.
Particularly as people use this to browse private repositories, corporate intranets, etc.
It's for this reason I have considered using a Chinese/Russian email service rather than Gmail, at least there is a chance they won't cooperate with the local authorities if they ever want to clamp down on my ass for some reaosn.