10-06-2016, 11:50 AM
(10-06-2016, 01:00 AM)Raven Wrote: I'm tempted to dump my yahoo email and change to gmail, but I'm sure the snoops have open access to Google as well.
Yahoo were one of the last major companies to start encrypting by default. Google are now encrypting their data as it flows between their data centres on their own fiber optic cables, because they are so convinced it is being snooped on. Of course that doesn't change that their whole business model depends on spying/watching your behaviour and selling advertising based upon that.
If you are going to use a regular email account then Gmail is easy to use and well featured. You can switch on 2 factor authentication as well. But without Grandote's advice on PGP, you have to accept that anything you send is essentially public. Email was never designed to be secure, that's simply not how email servers work. So this goes beyond a Yahoo/Google problem and really becomes a general email problem, hence PGP.