this is a problem that is not going to go away easily. gmail, yahoo or even your own domain name and the mail id that comes with it are all open to subpoena. even if you have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] you still need to encrypt your data and send it to the recipient. if the recipient does not have the decryption key, there is no way to decrypt it. so, you need to shared the decryption key with the recipient securely. that pretty much means that you cannot communicate securely anything with a person whom you are having first contact. There is infrastructure in place such as key distribution centers to get over this. But the moment we have anything adequately big as an infrastructure, its open to subpoena.
I don't see why gmail should be seen as evil if they are willing to release account information on subpoena. without it, they are not even permitted to operate in the country. Sarad. Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:21:20 +0530 From: Akarsh Simha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Check out my Facebook profile To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > ahem ! please exclude mailing lists when sending invitation .:D These are automated invitations and the Facebook folks force you to give them your GMail password and flood everyone with invites. They promise to resepct your privacy, though. After hearing Andrew Cowie at FOSS.IN, I left Facebook and Orkut. I recommend that all Facebook users review the Facebook license agreement. IIUC, they maintain the right to use your information as they please and even to disclose all your "private" messages to public domain. AfC recommended that all FOSS supporters should avoid such things where you don't have the real "freedom". >>>>>>>GMail was one of them, but that waits till I get my own domain name :-) Regards Akarsh _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
