security of gmail

[Madison Kelly]

Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> 
> 
> Now, I would have a good question for this list.
> 
> As you know or not, I am now in Russia. I use normally my gmail.com 
> account to send and receive emails.
> 
> I know almost for sure that I am followed by Russian Secret Intelligence 
> (heh, I am indeed somewhat oversensitive to these issues, but I have 
> also good confirmation that that kind of activity if going on around). 
> That by CIS is likely too. Not that I care much about that, but anyway 
> one would like sometime to be more certain about privacy. In fact - 
> never ever trust a government agency, and I believe that I am right in 
> that.
> 
> So, I just wonder, to what extent gmail.com can protect me from unwanted 
> survillance by Russians when I actually send and receive emails from 
> Russia? I use gmail secure pop and smtp, but how are they really secure? 
> Anyone is able to comment on that?
> 
> That gmail.com can be viewed with high likeness by CIS I assume as granted.
> 
> Please.
> 
> zb.

Google has caved to the Chinese before, I don't see why they'd stand up 
to the Russians. If you need secure communications, you are probably 
best to invest in your own server, preferably outside Russia, and use a 
secure connection to it.

Madi
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