-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Albo P Fossa: > Google's had news focus of late, for its supposed ardent protection > of email content against government's "prying eyes". (I note, it's > only content that's protected: sender, IP, userid, name, subject, > and recipient are all somewhat readily available.) However, it > occurred to me to ask this. I moved my email from Gmail to a > domain-managed account. Does that by its nature give me a "better > class" of privacy protection? Or does it depend wholly upon the > practices of my hosting company?
It's important remember there's two levels of Google's compliance. As they are a US company they have to abide by all US laws. While Google fights for privacy, somewhat against lower level law enforcement requiring them to have supporting legal documentation authorizing them to have access to that information. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/google-says-get-a-warrant/ However all this policy and protection is pretty much thrown out the window if they think you are a terrorist and they will roll over for the NSA. Hosting your own email in another country outside of the US would be a good idea, because we all know the NSA records everything anyway that goes across US networks. Doing this won't provide complete protection however, because depending on where you're receiving mail from (for example if a friend has GMail/some other US provider/mail routed through US) it's going to get recorded. It's probably a good idea to start using pgp if you're concerned about the contents of your mail being recorded. Though I would not be surprised if they have a way of decrypting that. Probably not on-the-fly but maybe if they specifically make it a task to complete. Also with proposed laws being introduced like CISPA, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the NSA has unfettered back end access. Unfortunately it's impossible to really know and thus only speculate because it's all "classified". http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_20602481/court-wont-order-google-nsa-interactions-released http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-nsa-secrecy-upheld/ All we do seem to know is the NSA has plans to "record the entire Internet". http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/15/2876528/wired-nsa-building-massive-surveillance-codebreaking-facility - -- scarp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJRB0UPAAoJEF2gSFkP1LMTWQEP/igiI0VA8LzIDvKU5TVFFN54 jj+kQC8mXGk6wmdoSfH8lZPaIa7PLx6VnVxrPurxwOXHKKdUqEXsDv3HylQbvC9v ztDjZXoowAXqLkJrGSCJn9bQDZaYh7cfrT08BS29Jg2qyxUJDtLUI4PY3LbHQ/dP saO1/rJhNN0Krx1jCCwiAAlw2bk219Mjb9QKJ8cRxFLRJm2AbZQDi3y1BznTC1He jV4Ol9Y7enVE9hw9gCqA4tqZMRs2I3OwsyQxvLYfCSdF+iBkA+49S/ODnYIs+J44 GQ0Gk+bZH3wtajNG8WQXgASebM/ZMN1mD88kqDGlCotXimvUfMtSXwlIONEOdd0p sfss2kXx/M34mBrsUjyeDD6AlFom5yEiMt6cFnUkBAVJvjRma/eIG3MbvpGLtkrz u6qK9cqPbuahOlTtWmJX7LY79RAn+x6eK2Fsgruk/Xrb7bv+NYDYzvnZ+f3LbTnm R/VCm2fJEqqQJNgu/X86KJ3ef1HJytiwb/9Pwsb1pA9PO9OTCrqkb8wwA/kf6Xdl 86W9pmBHvabDfGR2h3gf3OhHCRXqtS7jVFTXacWXq3OdfSh5lFDYY5oSdBX7gMU4 2KbggEsMR7jQeDbF4dBA++P7WzuBMBq8mPTBh2cmx3VuF91dGuzY9Rvv/yj0VH2x PCF/gZtpqlpVX7sFyqh0 =3cBd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
