&gt; Single point of failure.<p>Okay?<p>&gt; Government entities have to go through physical work to seize multiple mail servers distributed geographically. This keeps the cost of fishing expeditions high enough that they won&#x27;t just do it by default.<p>Except they seem pretty seize-happy and the only thing protecting your house is the say-so of a judge.<p>&gt; With everything at Gmail, Yahoo, and Microsoft, you only need to serve 3 entities, who already are known to roll over.<p>That seems quite unfair, as at least 2 have been very public about their expenditures to try and make such attacks impossible in the future, and have vocally fought subpoenas.<p>&gt; Do you want the companies most likely to buy you out for a large value to be the ones holding all of your internal emails?<p>Yes. The lawsuit should I discover it would probably make me richer and more famous than all the buyout events I&#x27;ve experienced.