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Re:Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak by loup-vaillant on Friday March 21, 2014 @06:55AM (#7441549)
They're not a viable privacy option. And it has little to do with their ethics: they are still vulnerable to subpoenas, many of their users don't even live in the same country…

The only viable privacy option is to host your mail at home. It doesn't have to be difficult. We "just" need a suitably tailored GNU/Linux distribution in a Sheeva Plug, or Raspberry Pi, that you just plug-in, then use as a web service. (Just one snag: your ISP must allow you to send and receive e-mail: many close off port 25, and some even ban home servers.)

Now to get your email, they need a search warrant and someone to knock on your door, which is inconvenient and costly.

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Re:Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak by bentcorner on Friday March 21, 2014 @12:33PM (#7443219)
Could you host your mail on a VPN instead? I wouldn't mind doing this except for the fact that I'm 100% certain I'd get something wrong.
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Re:Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak by gkoz on Friday March 21, 2014 @02:28PM (#7443885)
This makes you too vulnerable to various DOS attacks though.
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