1- I'm not talking about anything being a target. I'm saying the US gov can get access if they want. And Gmail or DO won't be allowed to talk about it. 2- Not

1- I'm not talking about anything being a target. I'm saying the US gov can get access if they want. And Gmail or DO won't be allowed to talk about it. 2- Not "every VPS provider", but the big ones, like AWS and DO. The NSA apparently had access to the fiber cable used by Google a few months back. They can probably easily get access to any other cable. 3- Yes, so? Did I say anything about me moving to Fastmail to get away from the US gov? The US gov will get to your data wherever you are if they actually need to. It's hopeless to try and hide your data. The only solution I see is encrypting it with something like PGP. They can easily find and save everything. But they can't decrypt everything. My move to Fastmail is about not having my email screened by robots to serve targeted ads. And making me less dependent on Google (which I think is the main topic of this thread).