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• They choose one of the Big 3 (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo) and think they made the best choice.

• Their messages flow open like postal cards but they think no one can read them.

• They delete their messages from the trash bin and believe the companies kept no copies.

• They think they have an e-mail for free but don't realize the cost of advertising.

• They think their messages are theirs but the companies really own them.

• The e-mail providers don't offer support for cryptography but they seem not to miss it.

• The NSA spies e-mails from all around the world but they think it only happens in the US.

• Their personal messages can be exposed at any time but they are not aware of it.

• They think they can trust the providers but don't realize all they care about is profit.

• And finally, they truly believe they have privacy when they have no privacy at all.

So I ask you again: are e-mail users imbeciles or just naive?

Maybe they just don't care that the US government read their emails, its mostly spam or junk anyway. 

If you really have to post your Bitcoin address after every post you make, at least keep it in your signature, please. All I see now is pretty much "blah blah blah send me 0.01 BTC" (yeah, you have a point, but it just looks too spammy with your address there IMO).

This. The majority of my emails are just stuff like Youtube subscription notifications, or, me asking someone where they're going to be on XYZ and if they want to do ABC. Unless the NSA cares where I'll be on Feb 11th (Believe me, it's no where interesting, not planting any bombs or anything), then, they're shit out of luck.

Half assed attempt at begging.

Too bad, OP hasn't received any "donation" yet :P

Who cares if they read our emails. It mean nothing an useless to them.

Maybe people just don't care. Maybe they're just happy to use functioning email websites.
0/10 stupid op

Where's the donation address?  ???

What email service would you suggest we use?

I find Op's message interesting, anything that you say or do on internet could potentially come back if you are not careful; this is true for any social media website or forum though

I'm aware of this, but I still use email. Just don't send anything sensitive or encrypt it.

So NSA read corporate emails too?

Of course.

According to the Snowden leaks, the aim of the NSA isn't to just collect information on terrorist threats to the nation, their aim is to collect information that is "beneficial" to the nation. If a corporation foreign or domestic has information that is useful they will collect it and use it, whether it be financial records, source code, or blueprints for new inventions.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f93_1390833151

And most of the population doesnt have anything to hide....

Most people think that right up until it matters.

Ever watched porn? the NSA knows which ones you watch.

Lets pretend you were secretly gay and decided to question the governments authority. They could use that against you, they could threaten to out you unless you stfu and they have done exactly that before.

It's not good to have the NSA collecting this information. What about a rogue employee? a hacker? ANYONE could get access to it. They seem to think that when they place backdoors in software/crypto that only they can use them and that when they collect info only they can access it. Not true at all!

But the problem isn't that the NSA collect it, its that people voluntarily give their private information up. It isn't just the NSA who do this, of course every government is secretly doing it, large corporations are doing it and even criminals. I say let the NSA collect all they like, it's the people that need to stop.

Mega encrypts your files : https://mega.co.nz/ I don't think they willingly give our infos to the us

They are working on a project to encrypt the web or at least a web mail service

Or, you could simply use 7Zip and TrueCrypt, which are both open-source.  :)

Email is already decentralized in the sense that anyone can set up their own mail server. Any email can be encrypted too with PGP regardless of the provider.

However we have a p2p messaging system but I wouldn't recommend it yet until it's a few years older. When it comes to crypto it needs to be studied for a few years before we know if its safe and know all the risks:
http://bitmessage.org

We could do with a better one though, bitmessage has a lot of design flaws and doesn't scale well at all.

well, suppose you have a state of the art email account
you send an email to a gmail user. Still your email is readable by government.

I like gmail and outlook.com, I don't have anything to hide from my government, that's why I use them

Maybe most don't have anything to hide, but there's plenty of stuff people don't want everbody to know.

I am thinking of a ten minute response time to each message in order for it to be confirmed  :D

It's not because the things you say now are not illegal, they will remain that way. Maybe the things you say now could get you in big trouble in the future. And maybe than, you'll realize you should have been scared of your government.

I use a safe emailprovider, unfortunately it doesn't matter much, because most people I mail aren't.  :(

Encrypt it with PGP...

Well if you dont trade drugs guns or child pornography i guess you are good to go :)

Those who have something to hide will hide it. I can think of a dozen ways to send secret info, with or without PGP.

It's not just about the if you're doing nothing wrong then you've got nothing to hide excuse, it's about privacy. Do you want someone to know all your business?

Email will probably never go away due to it's ubiquitousness, but there are of course better systems than others for guarding your privacy. Do you use email yourself - is a good way to answer your own question... :)

I think it's down to convenience mostly - the ease of setup and use of something like Gmail or Hotmail outweighs the potential privacy issues for most people

Most people unfortunately don't seem to care.