With gmail now encrypted, do you think vendors might allow communication through there?

Probably not, right? But there are clearnet sites with the same vendors on the darknet. I wonder how safe it actually is, and whether Google would report that sort of thing (or even care to look for it).


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[7 Points] None:

No. Here is an interesting article about it.

http://time.com/33655/gmail-encryption-nsa/


[4 Points] sohhlz:

gmail is encrypted by google when the data is in transit between you and one of their servers or between their servers at different data centers. Unless you use PGP to encrypt your messages, your email is still sitting on their servers in the clear. If they get a subpoena for your email account, they will hand over all of those unencrypted emails to the authorities.

The only thing that their encryption will hopefully prevent is the NSA sucking up all of the data off of taps on the fiber in one of their mass spying efforts.


[3 Points] pugetF:

I don't see how Google encrypting is worth shit when they can still be privately forced to hand over keys...


[2 Points] InfinitelyOutThere:

If you use PGP for every single message, probably yeah


[2 Points] sharpshooter789:

Google has the keys to decrypt the content and they will hand over unencrypted data to LE if they request it.

This move by google may prevent or reduce mass surveillance. That said, this could just be a PR stunt intended to reinstall trust; meaning google maybe handing all the keys off to the NSA. In other words a false sense of security.


[1 Points] RedSunMarket:

No, you dummy. GMail is not encrypted. It may be encrypted to you or me, but do you think they don't use key escrow? Really?

Do you REALLY think Google is secure? It's google for crying out loud.

Sorry to be so damn hostile about this, but wow. Stay away from google. Don't even use gmail with PGP. they can see that and set up red flags.


[1 Points] the_avid:

Did everybody see the story about how Microsoft tracked down an employee who was leaking code to a blogger by reading his Hotmail account? Turns out that the terms of service of most of the major webmail providers allows them to do this.

So the corporations have access to your email with no warrant via the terms of service, and the government has direct access to it via Prism.

I trust the online companies like Google about as much as I trust the US government.

The google announcement about using encryption has little impact on users - its about Google's internal infrastructure and preventing sniffing via physical taps (something that came out via Snowden). There is no way anybody involved in darknets etc. should be using Gmail (or hotmail, or yahoo mail, etc.)


[1 Points] jackibrown:

fuck google yeah? thanks


[1 Points] summore:

I wouldn't use gmail to do anything illegal.


[-3 Points] IGetDankShit:

I've never fully understood the logic behind people feeling insecure when using gmail. You can access it via TOR and you can use PGP, so where's the issue?