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If you really bet that, it says more about you than me.

But anyways: what does it matter if your webmail provider isn't beholden to the government, if a suitably motivated teenager can read your mail because of software vulnerabilities?

Google Mail isn't likely to be more secure just because Google is inherently better at building software than anyone else. Rather, it's because they allocate more resources to the problem of keeping Google Mail secure than any other mail provider does (or even can) allocate to their security.



False equivocation. A script kiddie is not the same as a three letter agency funded by a first world government.


First, I don't think "equivocation" means what you think it means.

Second, the equivalence isn't false. The Venn diagram of sites that can be compromised by script kiddies is entirely contained by that of sites that can be compromised by NSA.


You are equivocating the NSA and script kiddies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation




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