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I find it sadly amusing to see people enamored with yet another prop for Gmail workflow, when just a few months ago we learned that our Gmail is being casually read by NSA, likely with Google's knowledge and assistance.

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Good thinking. There's no chance that the NSA is reading any other email. I mean, it's not like email is sent through the Internet as unencrypted plain text.

It is a bit frustrating to see the NSA angle in everything these days. Going by the same logic, it is very likely that they are tapping into the backbones, should we then be less enamored with using the internet?

The snooping is a serious problem and has been discussed to death and beyond in various threads.

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