[Gllug] Alternatives to googlemail

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On 30 May 2011, Steve Parker spake thusly:

> On 29/05/11 11:06, Daniel Mang wrote:
>> I am looking into the possibility of finally transferring my email
>> away from google (for some reasons see
>> http://www.google-watch.org/gmail.html).
> IANAL, and I certainly don't know US law, but the Regulation of
> Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) here in the UK gives the UK government
> authority to read your email, and to force you to decrypt your
> encrypted email for them on demand,

I've wondered for a while. Suppose that the UK govt gets nobbled by a
big company, call it X (which would *never* happen), and they force a
few people working on their competitor Y's secret sauce to open their
email, and ban them from talking about it to their employers.

Y, when it inevitably finds out, would be narked at this and could
reasonably rumble about disciplinary procedures. I wonder if 'just doing
what the law obliged me to and what the nice men in police uniforms
said' would be a defence in this case? (I also suspect that if your
employer Y really tries to bring the hammer down on you for something
like this over which you had no control at all, that you're better off
working somewhere else anyway. But probably not X. They're demonstrably
unethical bastards too.)

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