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Old 30 Apr 2017, 10:41 PM   #10
TenFour
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@Tenfour...being in Germany (still occupied by the US after 72 years..!) I would NOT trust anything were servers are in the US,-) Did you know the NSA tapped Merkels phone??,-) just saying...
I have zero confidence that any email is safe from state-level snooping, and I am personally more worried about hackers/criminals getting into my account. I am not doing anything of any interest to any government. As to Merkel's account, I am also 100% certain that every country is doing the same to every other country they possibly can. Not justifying it--just pointing out the reality. You would think that if anything might trigger NSA/FBI spying on you it might be using a Russian email service, especially after we have seen various hacks of our elections and metro systems, etc. http://thehackernews.com/2016/11/tra...em-hacked.html

This old thread has some interesting thoughts on state-level snooping, including these statements: http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=67485
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1. All communication between your Yandex mailbox and your US addresses will be read (well, may be read) by NSA by default (communication with foreign entity) and because communication between Yandex and any non-Yandex mailbox is unencrypted, nothing prevent NSA to intercept it.

2. FSB is much more "evil" than NSA. NSA may put you on "short list" if you really do something very bad, but, at least, they don't care if you send by email your tax declaration or copy of your US passport. But if you send some US (UK/Canada etc.) documents via Yandex, it's really interesting thing for FSB.

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