OT: gmail for SEIV people

[Will]

I've read it. I've also read this. There are just some things that, while the arguement looks sound, the conclusions are completely bunk.

For one, their arguements about government access to email through subpoena applies to ALL e-mail services. Even if you run your own. The only difference with running your own is you get to know about the subpoena under PATRIOT, since you're also the administrator. As for other countries, if Zimbabwe decides to take control of some google servers in that country, sure, they might have access to some of my email. They'll also have royally pissed off a lot of people. And if the Zimbabwe government tried to just access *my* email (for whatever reason), you don't think Google would raise a stink about that globally?
Then there's the small arguement about tracking cookie which can be deleted at any time, nullifying the value google would get from it. And then a rant on the supposed evil-ness of Ad-words, when it's well known that advertisers just pay to have their ad show up on pages where certain words come up. Yes, that means "law" will bring up ads for law firms, even competing ones, and "perscription" will bring up drug importers, even in an article criticizing those importers. Amazing how a paranoid article can be seeming to call for an omniscient AI to serve up all our ads...

Anyway, I just had to vent on the tin-foil hat brigade for a while. I was only offering the gmail accounts, that doesn't mean y'all have to take them (invites are used up for now anyways). Who knows, I could be wrong, and now the NSA knows I'm a progressive leaning college student with interests in science, computers, philosophy, and music. I'm so scared