Is Yandex Mail more secure and private than Gmail?

6 points by confusedev 12 years ago | 6 comments

What do you think HN?

Yandex Mail + Thunderbird

https://mail.yandex.com https://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/

confusedev 12 years ago |

I think we can send a message to Google and other corporations involved with the NSA if we start using alternative providers like Yandex or otherwise.

stromeyer3 12 years ago | |

How about some kind of Snapchat-like email service

junto 12 years ago | | |

I've just started an Ask HN for European alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5861717

rasterizer 12 years ago |

It depends on who you prefer should read them: Obama or Putin, the CIA or the KGB.

mtgx 12 years ago | |

I don't think that many countries have anything to fear about Russia, even if they do spy on them. I think they have quite a bit to fear if US spies on them and their leaders. I'd be shocked if all that spying wasn't used to blackmail other country leaders in some way.

ScottWhigham 12 years ago | | |

That's a lot of assumptions on your part that you are expecting us to buy into/believe along with you. Russia is the 8th-10th largest GDP in the world (depending on which list you read at what time) - they're hardly the "tiny nation that could not intimidate anyone else" that your post makes them out to be.