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Re:Russia blocks ProtonMail by redis_mlc on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:38PM (#22184897)
> if we believe Snowden

You don't have to believe him.

Google engineers have admitted in print that their inter-DC links were not encrypted.

Marissa Mayer admitted in print that she allowed the government to install a linux kernel module to sniff email traffic for keywords, among other things.

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Re:Russia blocks ProtonMail by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:40PM (#22184926)
> Google engineers have admitted in print that their inter-DC links were not encrypted.

Didn't Google qua Google, not mere engineers, do that by publicly announcing that they were upgrading security by encrypting them in the wake of the Snowden leaks?

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