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> Thats a huge stretch and abuse of logic IMHO. Don't build roads because criminals and terrorists will drive on them.

Just thought those two sentences were funny being right next to each other.

Let's be honest here, though: The percentage of people using his email service for illegal reasons is much higher than the percentage of people using roads for the same illegal reasons. It's the same problem that Pastebin faces,[0] and it's the reason paste.pocoo.org shut down.[1] Services that advertise complete privacy and anonymity get swamped with people who want to hide illegal activity.

[0]: http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/62490-pastebin-to-p...

[1]: http://paste.pocoo.org/about/



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