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pewflyon Which browser plugins are essential for privacy?

pewflyon Stop the paranoia: it doesn't matter if Google reads our email

An honest question. From what I know Hotmail et. al. is free, so without ads how do they (Microsoft) make money?

pewflyon Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail

I have a question regarding these so-called highly secure email providers which respect privacy. Is the data on the servers of these services encrypted? I mean, isn't it too resource consuming to do something like that? And if it is encrypted, do they do it like LastPass, with a client side JavaScript decryption module?

pewflyon Feynman on explanations

Yup, but I think in the 80's it was the standard explanation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/science/21ice.htm