Google gives details of email accounts at the request of the US Government, without much of a fight. Ask Jacob Appelbaum who had his entire email account seized. Paranoia: justified. If that can happen to him, it can happen to all of us.
Even if they get your email encrypted they still have a map of all of your contacts.
You could run your own mail server, use PGP, disk encryption and suitably back it up using something like rsync or git. The above probably takes about the same time that the author took to write this article.
If you are concerned about contacts being traced there is Mixminion, an anonymous remailer.
you run that risk with any email account stored in a country where the government has established that they can demand access for law enforcement or national security reasons. that's...basically all of them.
that's great that you and that other guy can exchange encrypted email, but every other one of your contacts that have no clue what you're talking about can have their accounts accessed. see, again, Jacob Appelbaum, Birgitta Jonsdottir, and Rop Gonggrijp.
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Google gives details of email accounts at the request of the US Government, without much of a fight. Ask Jacob Appelbaum who had his entire email account seized. Paranoia: justified. If that can happen to him, it can happen to all of us.
Even if they get your email encrypted they still have a map of all of your contacts.
You could run your own mail server, use PGP, disk encryption and suitably back it up using something like rsync or git. The above probably takes about the same time that the author took to write this article.
If you are concerned about contacts being traced there is Mixminion, an anonymous remailer.
you run that risk with any email account stored in a country where the government has established that they can demand access for law enforcement or national security reasons. that's...basically all of them.
that's great that you and that other guy can exchange encrypted email, but every other one of your contacts that have no clue what you're talking about can have their accounts accessed. see, again, Jacob Appelbaum, Birgitta Jonsdottir, and Rop Gonggrijp.