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Meh. My most importance source of data in Google's control is my email. They aren't doing much to help me protect myself there. My only wish is that they provid
by AceJohnny2 13y ago
Meh. My most importance source of data in Google's control is my email. They aren't doing much to help me protect myself there. My only wish is that they provide a stable hook for tools like Firegpg [1] to encrypt the email's plaintext.
Their constant tweaking of the textbox led FireGPG's developers to throw in the towel.
I understand that Google wants to read your emails to power their ads. I doubt the fraction of power-users that would enable FireGPG would put a fraction of a dent in their systems.
[1] http://getfiregpg.org/s/home http://getfiregpg.org/s/home
- jmillikin 13y agoInstead of trying to reverse-engineer a proprietary compressed Javascript codebase that changes daily, you should use Thunderbird and Enigmail. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ https://www.enigmail.net/ https://www.enigmail.net/
- mpyne 13y agoOr just use KMail (which integrates with GnuPG by default) on your shiny open-source Linux or BSD that you're surely using already. :)
- drivebyacct2 13y agoNo, seriously. If you're even remotely serious about protecting yourself, why would you use a closed source OS?
- ewoodrich 13y agodrivebyacct2, you are hell-banned, and have been for quite awhile. Several of your comments have been insightful with show-dead, and I feel you should be aware.
- mahyarm 13y agoWhat is the practical option for mobile devices? Everything I've found on iOS & Android is absolute awkward shit.
- goombastic 13y agoThis is not just about email. Its about your entire browsing history, location, texts, phonecalls.
- ams6110 13y agoThere are limits to what Google can do to protect your email. If you email someone outside of the gmail service, your message will leave their data centers and travel over the public internet, possibly unencrypted at various points (unless you GPG it yourself) depending on what the various SMTP relays along the way do.