This is why I run my own email server and I use my own CA and certificates instead of relying upon a "trusted" 3rd party. The problem I see is, to what extent do you trust your service provider? Do you trust them to not hand everything over to the NSA or any other agency that claims authority? Unfortunately, as companies like Hushmail have show, even their stated privacy policies aren't enough. Interestingly, it seems that the response and possibly the answer lie in going peer to peer, via applications like Tor (which is still based upon a set of master keys that must be trusted), YaCy for searching, online purchasing with bit coins, as well as foreign based VPN services that at least add a layer of obscurity between you and a potential eavesdropper.

My wife and I are both avid gamers and we have both an Xbox360 and a PS3. In actuality, this is my second Xbox, as the first one did fail after very long and hard played life of several thousand hours, including games like Saint's Row which was known to be hard on the machine. My personal opinion is that the Xbox has been a very reliable machine and I am very happy with it. By way of comparison, I have had a very poor experience with the reliability of the PS3, which cost me twice as much. The PS3 had about 100 hours on it and the hard drive failed. I replaced it with a laptop hard drive and got it working again. After about 20 more hours of gameplay, the blue ray laser diode fried. Sony will want $150 to repair it. So to compare, I spent about $600 USD on two xbox units that have a combinded total of several thousand hours of play versus $750 on a PS3 that has about 120 hours and will require another $150 to get it working again.
If this xbox were to die, I would buy another one. I am considering throwing the PS3 in the trash.