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Deutsche Telekom and United Internet have launched a super-secure German email service that they claim defeats the data-sniffing shenanigans of the likes of the NSA. The partners announced that they were starting an initiative for "secure email communication across Germany". "Germans are deeply unsettled by the latest reports …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Germany and the USA

    "Other than having to obey any (s*cret) laws the German govt decides."

    Germany is far from a perfect democracy but it is not the US of A. If Police or intelligence services misbehave then they also violate German laws as well. That this usually doesn't lead to serious consequences for those involved is another topic though. There are no s*cret laws or s*cret courts, and considering Germany's history and the fact that a large part of the population has lived in an environment of s*crecy and lack of privacy, there is no way that a similar system could be established.

    ">Which has no links whatsoever with the US Government.

    Other than being USA's 2nd special little friend."

    Not really. The USA's 'special' little friends are Israel, the UK, NZ and Australia. Germany is certainly cooperative in many areas, but it should not be forgotten that after the war certain cooperation requirements (especially in intelligence) have been forced down it's throat.

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    gnunet.org

    I'm glad to see a backlash against the NSA's actions - despite what you think of Deutsche. But I will never trust the NSA or underestimate their ability to 'persuade' any organisation in the world to give them what they want. So, best cut out the intermediate organisations as far as possible.

    see https://gnunet.org

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    It's impossible to make everything totally secure, but anything would be better than the leaky sieve it is now.

    If the upshot of the NSA scandal is that more people PGP encrypt their emails and use https whenever they can, then at least something good has come out of it. I hope new services appear on the back of this. 'EU Secure DropBox', more ISPs offering VPN opt-in etc.

    Most people really don't have much to hide, but that's no reason why we can't all make it just a little bit harder for authorities to find that out.

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