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by cryptbe 4387 days ago
> None of this bickering changes a simple truth: when a web mail provider claims to provide "NSA-proof" end-to-end encryption, hosted in Switzerland just to be safe, using software that you don't have to install on your computers at all, then you need to assume that web mail provider can read your email, and so can anyone who can coerce that provider into doing something. If you believe that --- and you should --- then I don't care what you think about the rest of the Matasano article.

This. The whole article could be replaced with this paragraph, and it couldn't be clearer.