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Posted by Trevor Jakes on December 22, 2005, 12:03 pm
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I had friends tell me not to use Google mail. One because of the whole
scanning-indexing/ad-targeting issue, the other because they said Google
reads all mail and attachments where as others (Hotmail, Yahoo!) only
read mail you receive. I'm not counting on any security anyways (posted
privacy policies are the legal equivalent of "it's our data now"), so
it's more of an intellectual curiousity.
QUESTIONS:
1.
Is there a difference in personal privacy between Yahoo, MSN, and Google
free web e-mail?
2.
If so, what differences exist?
-trev
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Posted by Donnie on December 22, 2005, 7:30 pm
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> I had friends tell me not to use Google mail. One because of the whole
> scanning-indexing/ad-targeting issue, the other because they said Google
> reads all mail and attachments where as others (Hotmail, Yahoo!) only
> read mail you receive. I'm not counting on any security anyways (posted
> privacy policies are the legal equivalent of "it's our data now"), so
> it's more of an intellectual curiousity.
>
> QUESTIONS:
>
> 1.
> Is there a difference in personal privacy between Yahoo, MSN, and Google
> free web e-mail?
>
> 2.
> If so, what differences exist?
>
> -trev
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Probably, there isn't much of a difference. I've been using inbox.com for
now until I get my computers setup again. All of them require that some
scripting be run in the browser which I always block. You never know what's
happening in the background. The bst thing to do is to have a separate
machine just for that.
donnie
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Posted by David on December 24, 2005, 8:20 pm
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> I had friends tell me not to use Google mail. One because of the whole
> scanning-indexing/ad-targeting issue, the other because they said Google
> reads all mail and attachments where as others (Hotmail, Yahoo!) only
> read mail you receive. I'm not counting on any security anyways (posted
> privacy policies are the legal equivalent of "it's our data now"), so
> it's more of an intellectual curiousity.
>
> QUESTIONS:
>
> 1.
> Is there a difference in personal privacy between Yahoo, MSN, and Google
> free web e-mail?
>
> 2.
> If so, what differences exist?
>
> -trev
If you are storing mail on their systems, it can be, but probably won't be read.
If "probably" is not good enough for you, the thing to do is use the account
with an offline reader and an encryption package, make an strong (4096 bits, and
use a strong hash) RSA or DSA/El Gamal encryption key pair, have your buddies do
the same, and send everything encrypted. This way, even if it is stored on
their systems, they cannot read it (unless maybe the NSA wants to). It mostly
depends on the trouble you want to go through.
~David~
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Posted by traveler 66 on December 26, 2005, 2:41 am
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>I had friends tell me not to use Google mail. One because of the whole
>scanning-indexing/ad-targeting issue, the other because they said Google
>reads all mail and attachments where as others (Hotmail, Yahoo!) only
>read mail you receive. I'm not counting on any security anyways (posted
>privacy policies are the legal equivalent of "it's our data now"), so
>it's more of an intellectual curiousity.
>
>QUESTIONS:
>
>1.
>Is there a difference in personal privacy between Yahoo, MSN, and Google
>free web e-mail?
>
>2.
>If so, what differences exist?
>
>-trev
You shouldn't rely on any of them for privacy, always use them via a
proxy and at the least have java dissabled.
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Posted by Borked Pseudo Mailed on December 27, 2005, 3:48 am
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full of shit it's comming ou your ears buddy, he's right, go find
yourself a nice black box to play in looser
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