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Re:One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks by dguido on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @12:10AM (#4874985)
Disagree. The reason that Gmail for iOS and Gmail in general suck is the total lack of support for cryptography within the application (S/MIME, PGP, or other solutions).

As a friend of mine said, "Gmail -- a private conversation between you, me, and 25,000 SREs."

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Re:One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks by packetslave on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @12:28AM (#4875037)
Funny, but not necessarily true. Poking around in someone's personal data is a really, REALLY good way to get fired immediately.
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Re:One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks by Firehed on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @01:28AM (#4875191)
getting caught poking around in someone's personal data is a great way to get fired ;)
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Re:One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks by willvarfar on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @03:24AM (#4875434)
also on the HN front page as we speak, beside this entry:

"'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4874462

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Re:One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks by scottmagdalein on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @04:17AM (#4875549)
Only way to have a truly private conversation is in person...maybe on a boat...a little bit off shore...with the motor idling :)
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Re:One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks by jmillikin on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @01:10AM (#4875142)
Better to say "between you, me, and the internet".

Remember that email is typically transmitted between servers in the clear, so it's trivially easy for your messages to be observed by arbitrary third parties.

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Re:One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks by dredmorbius on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @03:06AM (#4875403)
And the NSA, CIA, FBI, KGB, Honest Achmed, your crazy ex wife/husband/bf/gf/dog, etc.

K9Mail at least provides crypto support, though it's painfully awkward to make use of on mobile.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959

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