On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 08:05:29AM -0400, John Newman wrote:
Do any gmail users (which I've noticed there a lot of on the list, as well as in real life, heh) feel at all threatened by what Google is doing with access to your entire mail stream?
I had technical reasons to need to, and then momentum and a stream of life events meant it took me ~8 years (since pre general availability when it was invite only) to break that addiction! That's long time to be without a libre email stack, and a long time to be dependent on a company that, to justify the money they take from the NSA, having already stopped saying "do no evil" a few years back when they went into China, -now- has to further say:
They've publicly stated users have no "reasonable expectation of privacy".
Build your own network. Rollout your own home servers/ open stack/ etc. It's the only way you will ever get any "reasonable expectation of privacy" honoured! Enjoy the ride, too :)
Setting up your own mail server (postfix+spamassasin+...clamav+..whatever) isn't really that hard, although you gotta pay a hosting fee,
Few ISPs provide a fixed IP address for free if you ask, some certainly provide a fixed IP if you pay a little extra every month. Recommended to have two IP addresses too - have fun :)