Staying at the forefront of email security and reliability

So how does this work when the CA&#x27;s are less than reputable, Google has to comply with various homeland security acts, they didn&#x27;t notice people tapping their fibre, have had numerous problems with their own staff and they have done evil before?<p>Sounds like marketing fluff to me.

Email security? How do they do that when they are data-mining everyone&#x27;s inbox? Most of us have a choice on using Gmail, some kids don&#x27;t <a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/do-no-evil-google-sued-data-mining-kids-emails-its-education-app" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alternet.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;do-no-evil-google-sued-dat...</a>

Encryption is irrelevant when one party will give out the info for a price.

I&#x27;d like to see Google evangelize and hand out to their competitors, no strings as with SPDY, any technology they develop or contribute to that helps people communicate securely, and their competitors doing that as well.

It is incredible that gmail even had HTTP enabled. It was an option in the gmail account settings. Honestly I am ashamed it took this long.<p>Their documentation stated that by default HTTPS was enabled, but this wasn&#x27;t the case for me. Mine was set to HTTP and all my emails were disclosed whenever I accessed them from firefox (which I guess doesn&#x27;t have the pins for auto https in gmail like I&#x27;m assuming chrome does).

&gt; In 2013, Gmail was available 99.978% of the time, which averages to less than two hours of disruption for a user for the entire year.<p>Does anyone understand why they use the term &quot;averages&quot; in this statement? What is being averaged? Isn&#x27;t it just 0.022% * minutes in a year.

Is really depressing reading the cynical comments right here.

What are some good alternatives to using Hosted Gmail (custom domain)?<p>I know of Gandi and fastmail.fm [hosted in US though, so not much of an improvement].

Am I the only one that&#x27;s not that impressed by 2 hours of downtime a year? I&#x27;ve worked at other companies where I was responsible for running a service and 2 hours of downtime a year was considered a failure.

Nice to hear they&#x27;re reacting to the revelations by Snowden. I guess the government will have a harder time eavesdropping mails at Google without them noticing.

And UI clutter