[tor-talk] WSJ- Google- Sonic Mr. Applebaum

[Jeroen Massar]

On 2011-10-10 18:42 , Andre Risling wrote:
> Here's how Google is a compliant slave.  
> 
> You still use Gmail?!

Does not matter what service you use, they all fail under the pressure
of organizations that want access to it, be that legal or illegal.
(The bigger problem with the context of the article is the 1984'ish
behavior of an apparent legal entity).

As long as you make sure you properly encrypt your messages (PGP or if
it is available for your medium OTR; and don't let your keys fall in the
wrong hands, but then again rubberhose anyone?) and use Tor to access
the service so that figureing out which IP you came from is useless as
it is an exit, you should be pretty fine.

PGP + email's prime weakness is the fact that the from/to/subject are
passed in the clear and that rubberhosing you or planting a bug on your
person/computer yields those precautions futile.

Then again, it also depends on what your adversary is and what you are
trying to protect, note also that not everybody has just one single
email address.

Greets,
 Jeroen