Your comment says — essentially — “every email company shares with their host country”. If I take that at face value, I would take the USs and Australia’s rule of law and due process and concern for my privacy many many times over Russia’s current government’s.
> I would take the USs [...] rule of law and due process and concern for my privacy many many times over Russia’s current government’s.
I find this somewhat laughable given that we already have solid proof (Snowden) that not only does the US slurp up emails en-masse but it considers non-citizens to have zero privacy rights (this fun EO: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/01/new_rules_on_...).
The reason Russia is less of a problem is that even if I give Russia all my email, it has an order of magnitude less data because it doesn't have access to data from Facebook, Google, Twitter and the like like the US does. It also has less power over my life. I have investments in US securities that could theoretically be taken from me if the US government wished. Russia has no power over me.
If you need strong privacy, then go to ProtonMail.
Otherwise, try https://yandex.com. For personal domains you can use https://connect.yandex.com, which is free (with ads) for unlimited users or $3 per user per month (available in several countries) without ads.
I've been using Yandex Connect for quite long time (free and paid). They are very good.
Yandex Connect goes with Email (fully unlimited), Cloud Storage, Wiki and Simple Messenger. There is also an option to control domain's DNS, but it's optional.
Yandex offers an excellent free email service indeed.
What I really like is their free support for custom domains which you need if you later want to move to another email provider later or if you want to create many user email accounts within your domain (say, [email protected] and [email protected]): https://connect.yandex.com/
I tried signing up for yandex a few months ago. I made an account, and I was able to gain access to their email service. However, I couldn't actually receive mail or send mail that went anywhere. From what I can tell, there's no guarantee they will actually activate your account when you sign up.
Let's be honest: Any company must comply with local authorities in any country they work in.
I'm pretty sure, that we can find such article about any major US based service and FBI/NSA/etc, for example. Same for major services from Europe. Because of this I pointed to ProtonMail before going further.
By the way, this article is about "Yandex's online payment service" (this service can be compared to PayPal), which is owned by Yandex only for 25%, other 75% is being owned by the biggest bank in Russia, which is owned by governance (just to clarify: Yandex is not).
Be careful, Russian secret services have an official access to all communication on their servers. If your threat model includes bad actors from Russia — it's a no go.
Why the hell US government, US media and pro-US organizations (ex. WADA) says that the Russian government was behind all hacking attacks in the last 6 month (maybe year or even more)? It sounds like a broken joke from 60s...
Yes, I'm Russian. Yes, I live in Russia. And Yes, I like my country.
> Why the hell US government, US media and pro-US organizations (ex. WADA) says that the Russian government was behind all hacking attacks in the last 6 month (maybe year or even more)? It sounds like a broken joke from 60s...
You are likely on solid ground accusing the US government of using Russia as an excuse.
When you accuse WADA of being "pro-US"; however, you lose all your credibility.
There is documents, that WADA allowed Serena Williams to take oxycodone and hydromorphone (opioids), prednisone, prednisolone, and methylprednisolone. Her sister Venus Williams was allowed to take prednisone, prednisolone, triamcinolone and formoterol. This is very strong grungs, they should lay in hostpital if they need then for living (owning some of this drugs will cause a 14 years sentence in EU). There is also info about Simone Biles and Elena Delle Donne and they promise more :)
That's not really true now is it. One of the most technically proficient hacks of recent times would have to be the Stuxnet attack, which is largely accepted to be the work of the US security services. this was widely covered in all media regardless of their affiliation with the US.
In addition many attacks have been attributed to China in the period you have mentioned.
It is incredibly likely that US based hackers have attacked both Russian and Chinese targets however both these governments would cover up these through control of state media to prevent what they would see as embarassment. Western media will report on hacks regardless of which government had done them if they were aware of the hack occuring.
No problems with liking your country but blindly believing everything put out by state controlled media does not have to be part of that.
Because it serves their interest to say so, regardless if it's actually true. Russia is a welcome target and it's basically impossible to prove who's reponsible for a hack like this (the korean symbols in the Fancy Bear's website's [1] source code are cute though).
Also, that's how media works these days. One press release to Reuters, and all the newspapers publish the same "facts".
That being said, I think it's fairly plausible that some actor with relations to Russia would publish documents like these.
This is driving me crazy. No proves was provided of almost any (all?) claims against Russia in the last 2-3 years. They just continue saying: "It was Russian", "It was Putin" etc. But where is the proves? Give me then and I'll stop talking about this.
Several years ago I used to support eastern position in all situation in Russia. But after accusation against Russia with no proves started to appear I become quite disappointed in the US...
I can give you my contacts or meet you anyway in the world, so you can be sure, that I'm not a troll, that was payed by Russian government. Just pay me for tickets. I'm just a simple family man, who works as a programmer and in less the one year I will post my startup here, at Hacker News :)
Yeah, but think about this points:
a) this report is based on words of the man, that run away from Russia after the Prosecutor's office started an investigation about his actions on RUSADA president position. Charges against him includes selling a restricted drugs. His sister was sent to prison for selling a restricted drugs several year ago, but the investigators wasn't able to find "her dealer".
b) this report is done by Richard Mclaren, who was one of the first people, that started to talk about such awful events is the sport world. So he i not the correct person to investigate such situation.
c) Richard Mclaren and WADA said that the have a solid proves of the accusations in Sochi report, but still they declined to show them anybody including Tomas Bah. I don't support any of conspiracy theories, but this one smells very-very bad.
b) Will the judge of any US court accept similar case with no evidence? If yes, then probably there is no any kind of problems with law in Russia...
Yes, the company that is expending significant effort on (differential) privacy, end to end encryption, ad blocking (and just wrapped up their small, privacy-sensitive ad network)... is going to start hosting Pampers ads.
No, you didn't get it. They won't host ads, but they'll have to upload things on their servers to compete with Google in terms of features (both Google Photos, and Google Now) (of course, they'll still do it with the holier-than-thou attitude). It's not that they've never taken complete U-turns anyway.
