Re:Staying at the forefront of email security and reliability
by ithkuil on Thursday March 20, 2014 @02:44PM
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Or to avoid going to jail (assuming that they give out the info to the US government in the first place).
The word "price hints money, but I guess you don't mean that; it would need a lot of money for that company to risk jeopardize it's reputation.
Probably the best pressure the US government could do is to actually threaten important people in the company some jail time if they cooperate. So here "price" means personal freedom. Nobody would like to go to jail just because his job right?
In any case, yes there is no guarantee that nobody would treat your data with no interference. If you use another mail provider, the government could grab their https certificate, or with cooperation of a cert authority perform a man in the middle attack. (Which ironically google can to some extent be protected from because of cert pinning in chrome).
Still, in your comment you are hinting that it's easier to just "buy" it from Google because Google is just fine with selling your data to anybody for a "price". I find it hard to believe. Not saying anybody should trust Google more than any other service, but I don't see neither any proof that we should trust them less.
The word "price hints money, but I guess you don't mean that; it would need a lot of money for that company to risk jeopardize it's reputation.
Probably the best pressure the US government could do is to actually threaten important people in the company some jail time if they cooperate. So here "price" means personal freedom. Nobody would like to go to jail just because his job right?
In any case, yes there is no guarantee that nobody would treat your data with no interference. If you use another mail provider, the government could grab their https certificate, or with cooperation of a cert authority perform a man in the middle attack. (Which ironically google can to some extent be protected from because of cert pinning in chrome).
Still, in your comment you are hinting that it's easier to just "buy" it from Google because Google is just fine with selling your data to anybody for a "price". I find it hard to believe. Not saying anybody should trust Google more than any other service, but I don't see neither any proof that we should trust them less.