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On 14/01/15 07:43, Martijn Grooten wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 06:29:46AM +0000, Mark Evans wrote: >> The obvious problem is that many people use webmail run by foreign >> companies. > > Given that this discussion is about comments made by the British prime > minister, I'd say that people using foreign services is part of the > solution rather than a problem. Only if they were based somewhere which would not "co-operate" with the British government. e.g. China or Russian Federation. There's unlikely to be any restrictions now when it comes to US based services. > > Note that both Google and Yahoo are working towards letting people use > PGP on their webmail services. To have any possibility of being secure this would need to be through client side open source applications. (Something likely to be especially difficult with tablets.) Anything offered by a webmail service provider themselves cannot possibly be audited by a potential user (or a cryptographer of their choice.)
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