[AceJohnny2]

Meh. My most importance source of data in Google's control is my email. They aren't doing much to help me protect myself there. My only wish is that they provide a stable hook for tools like Firegpg [1] to encrypt the email's plaintext.

Their constant tweaking of the textbox led FireGPG's developers to throw in the towel.

I understand that Google wants to read your emails to power their ads. I doubt the fraction of power-users that would enable FireGPG would put a fraction of a dent in their systems.

[1] http://getfiregpg.org/s/home

[jmillikin]

Instead of trying to reverse-engineer a proprietary compressed Javascript codebase that changes daily, you should use Thunderbird and Enigmail.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

https://www.enigmail.net/

[mpyne]

Or just use KMail (which integrates with GnuPG by default) on your shiny open-source Linux or BSD that you're surely using already. :)

[ewoodrich]

drivebyacct2, you are hell-banned, and have been for quite awhile. Several of your comments have been insightful with show-dead, and I feel you should be aware.

[mahyarm]

What is the practical option for mobile devices? Everything I've found on iOS & Android is absolute awkward shit.

[ams6110]

There are limits to what Google can do to protect your email. If you email someone outside of the gmail service, your message will leave their data centers and travel over the public internet, possibly unencrypted at various points (unless you GPG it yourself) depending on what the various SMTP relays along the way do.

[goombastic]

This is not just about email. Its about your entire browsing history, location, texts, phonecalls.