totally open standard. Any Hotmail or Yahoo or ISP admin could look
through any mailbox at any time. Those messages move along the ether
unencrypted (unless you've explicitly used PGP or something to encrypt
it) and are extraordinarily easy (to someone with the knowhow) to
rebuild from packets into a readable message. This is why you don't get
credit card numbers or bank account numbers sent through email - it's
just not secure.
Google's doing nothing that I disagree with, and I'm very concerned with
my online privacy. Their system is set up to, when a mail is read, to
look for keyphrases or terms and check their system for relevant adword
hits to display. I don't particularly care if they keep track of terms
that show up a lot or target specific ads to me either. Email is not
private, it never has been, and unless Google is cracking PGP keys to
display adwords, they're not doing anything scurrilous in my book.
If there are people highly concerned with their privacy regarding the
content of their email messages, they need to either learn to use
public-key encryption, investigate secure, authenticated messaging
systems to replace email, or learn to love writing letters by hand.
- Jim
Robyn Follen wrote:
>Anyone been keeping up with the happenings of GMail - Google's new email
>service? Looks like they're facing privacy concerns because they display
>ads based on the contents of your emails... evil or brilliant?
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