security of gmail

[G. Matthew Rice]

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 17:43 -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Zbigniew Koziol wrote: 
> > 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?
> 
> 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.

Don't rely on google to protect you from anything.

Protect your IP address by using TOR or something like it:

    http://www.torproject.org/

And install the FireGPG add-on to gmail to encrypt everything you send.

Then, make everyone encrypt the e-mail that they send you.

I'll leave the last part for you to figure out...

Let me know when you do.

Regards,
--matt

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