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I applaud the tenacity with which people want to be "self-secured", but this is misinformed. It would not be hyperbolic to say that Google is one of the greate

I applaud the tenacity with which people want to be "self-secured", but this is misinformed. It would not be hyperbolic to say that Google is one of the greatest companies in the world in terms of network security fidelity. It uses literally billions of dollars in resources, some of the greatest minds of this generation to implement them, and cutting edge technology to secure its data. By contrast, the author has a somewhat hacked together approach here, with capital orders of orders of magnitude lower, and, frankly, less expertise than the combined skill of the GMail engineering team alone. Google, for all the slander it received during the NSA scandal, is like a secure island oasis in a sea of vulnerabilities. You are much more secure with the large corporation that everyone loves to hate than on your own. Let's talk strategy as well. Do you imagine you'll be safe from the NSA - or any agency - because you boycotted one of their alleged sockpuppets and decided to run your own stack? If they really cared about your data, do you think this would stop them? And, more importantly, as I detailed in the first paragraph, do you have more engineering chops than the combined weight of even a single Google team?

jamoes 13y ago
> It uses literally billions of dollars in resources, some of the greatest minds of this generation to implement them, and cutting edge technology to secure its data The problem is when all that is working against you rather than for you. There's no point in putting in your star player if they're just going to take a dive when you need them most.
motters 13y ago
The Snowden leaks indicate that assuming your data is safe and secure from warrantless access while residing blissfully in plain text on the cloud servers of the PRISM list member companies is at best a hopelessly naive expectation. That applies particularly if you are a "non US person reasonably believed to be outside the US", which means that you're considered to be fair game for any and all exfiltration schemes.

jamoes 13y ago

> It uses literally billions of dollars in resources, some of the greatest minds of this generation to implement them, and cutting edge technology to secure its data The problem is when all that is working against you rather than for you. There's no point in putting in your star player if they're just going to take a dive when you need them most.

motters 13y ago

The Snowden leaks indicate that assuming your data is safe and secure from warrantless access while residing blissfully in plain text on the cloud servers of the PRISM list member companies is at best a hopelessly naive expectation. That applies particularly if you are a "non US person reasonably believed to be outside the US", which means that you're considered to be fair game for any and all exfiltration schemes.