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Comment by Matt_Cutts | Hacker News Reader

Personally, I'm really glad that Google published such a clear, plain-spoken post to tackle this issue head on.

This whole issue makes me want to donate a bunch of money to the EFF. If anyone else feels the same way, you can donate to the EFF here: https://supporters.eff.org/donate and I believe a lot of employers will match contributions.

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EFF is certainly doing a great job right now, so donations are definitely going to help.

Let me ask you this - do you feel 100% comfortable that nobody outside of Google can read your personal gmail?

Me personally? I do. I still want Google to up the number of key bits on our SSL connections, plus explore how to make the connection even more secure though. But yes, I'm quite confident.

Thanks! Believe it or not, your one statement made me feel more assured than all the press releases I've seen so far.

It looks like the security team is currently working on upping the SSL bits.

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/05/changes-to-...

2048 bits! Woohoo!

I'm sorry, but google's response was demagogical at best (what does 'direct access' even means!??!). In many countries the judiciary would already be in the case and the head of those companies (which didn't provide 'direct access' but there is obviously something happening) would have a lot of explanation to do.

"Direct access" was the wording used in the original article that started this entire debate. All they're doing is responding to the same language they were presented with.

I have donated even before this. How about Google giving them say $10M to hold some people's feet to the fire?

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