Switching from Gmail to FastMail

Re:Switching from Gmail to FastMail by tlrobinson on Friday July 19, 2013 @12:29PM (#6071146)

There are two ways the NSA can collect your email: fiber taps sucking up unencrypted SMTP connections, and "direct" collection from servers/FISA orders etc. Ironically if your email provider is in another country it's much more likely that emails to and from the US will be captured.

It would be interesting to setup a mail service with numerous SMTP relays around the world and attempt to connect the "closest" (least likely to be eavesdropped) relay to 3rd party SMTP servers. Communication between the relays and the main service (which stores your email in a friendly jurisdiction) would be strongly encrypted.

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Re:Switching from Gmail to FastMail by rdl on Friday July 19, 2013 @11:41PM (#6074248)

With our VPN thing we're doing "nearest hop to destination outroute" for traffic (essentially the opposite of most network providers who try to get shit off their net as fast as possible); doing the same thing for incoming for services is essentially what CDNs do. A CDN you could trust (for policy + technical reasons) to handle this kind of thing for all kinds of traffic, combined with DoS protection like CF or Prolexic, would be kind of baller.

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Re:Switching from Gmail to FastMail by toomuchtodo on Friday July 19, 2013 @12:40PM (#6071224)

This would be trivial to do with the right DNS provider and virtual machines spread across the world.

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Re:Switching from Gmail to FastMail by rdl on Friday July 19, 2013 @11:40PM (#6074243)

I wonder if it's better to return an "optimized" DNS MX record or just anycast.

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