Think of it the other way, if Lockheed martin were to start a Gmail, GDocs equivalent tomorrow, would you use their services knowing how closely they work with the military? Would global users be comfortable using it? The whole PRISM fiasco isn't far from this. What's stopping the Pentagon from buying access to users data? It's a trust thing, imo.
>Think of it the other way, if Lockheed martin were to start a Gmail, GDocs equivalent tomorrow, would you use their services knowing how closely they work with the military?
Well yeah. The term "military grade" is one that tends to sell products.
>What's stopping the Pentagon from buying access to users data?
If there's no end to end encryption, I assume some three letter agency already has access.
> if Lockheed martin were to start a Gmail, GDocs equivalent tomorrow, would you use their services knowing how closely they work with the military?
Them working closely with the military would not be the reason I would choose not to use their service considering that almost all emails already go through NSA servers.
