Gmail = bad

major security risk!!!

Published on July 5, 2005 By Tominated In Internet

Google has been naughty. They have kept every email that a gmail user has sent or recieved (the mail still got sent).
They have also been keeping the gmail users details. All of the emails and info have been kept on one helluva server. This is just to warn you.

Comments (Page 1)

cal0140

on Jul 05, 2005

hey, just so you know, next time before you go crying wolf, give people some freaking proof!!!

Danny Bassette

on Jul 06, 2005

Well you'll have to decide if it's really proof or not, but here's a link that supports Tominated's statement.

Jafo

on Jul 06, 2005

Woodbridge

on Jul 06, 2005

Whats the point of having 1Gb of email space if they are not going to hold onto the emails? Next you'll be telling us that they can track our every movement just from our mobile phones...

You should read Dan Brown's Digital Fortress (author of The Da Vinci Code etc) you'd love that

Bash2cool

on Jul 06, 2005

Every person who has an email will have to give some privte information about themselves!! Even yahoo and msn keep personal information!!!

NEXT TIME YOU WRITE AN ARTICLE GET PROOF!!!

Island Dog

on Jul 06, 2005

People are so paranoid. Everytime you send an e-mail do you know where it goes and how many people could possibly have access to it?

elessart

on Jul 06, 2005

by JourneyMan Woodbridge
Whats the point of having 1Gb of email space if they are not going to hold onto the emails? Next you'll be telling us that they can track our every movement just from our mobile phones...

You should read Dan Brown's Digital Fortress (author of The Da Vinci Code etc) you'd love that

I heard that book was great, and as for Gmail...i dontreally care if they track me or not. If its not interfering with my life and suring the net, then its fine. ANd its not like their getting info about my credit card or anything. Proof man, you need it in any arguement.

kona0197

on Jul 06, 2005

Whats the point of having 1Gb of email space if they are not going to hold onto the emails?

Gmail offers over 2 gigs of space - it increases every day. I know have 2.3 gigs of space.

Underdog45

on Jul 06, 2005

The second sentence of this "article" is more than a bit unclear. I'm not even sure as to what it's supposed to mean.

Anyway, if you haven't heard, Google is an advertising company. They also do search, Email, maps, Picasa, and the like, but advertising is the only way they actually make money. In order to have more effective ads, and therefore charge more for ads to make more money, they collect information to target their ads at the right people. It's just like how you don't see ads for laundry detergent on ESPN or ads with trucks driving around in mud on the Weather Channel. It's also similar to Amazon giving you suggested products based on what you have bought from them and what other people who bought the same things as you bought. Throwing ads around at random is not the most effective way to do things, and that has been known for a long time.

Whether you believe collecting information to target ads better violates Google's famed "Do No Evil" slogan or not, that information is the lifeblood of its money-making business. Google is a company, not a search engine charity. It should come as no surprise that it will always try to find ways to collect more information about you.

Gnaw

on Jul 06, 2005

Google is everything, the air we breath, the sunlight we feel burn our skins, the water we bathe in. You can not escape google!

YAhahahahahahhah

im sorry

Ash08

on Jul 06, 2005

I feel Gmail = very very very bad.

But Google = very very good.

craeonics

on Jul 06, 2005

Public secret. Not like they tried to hide that.

From the license agreement: http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/terms_of_use.html

You do, however, agree that Google may monitor, edit or disclose your personal information, including the content of your emails, if required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process or governmental request (such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order), or as otherwise provided in these Terms of Use and the Gmail Privacy Policy.

From the privacy policy: http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/privacy.html

Email contents and usage. The contents of your Gmail account also are stored and maintained on Google servers in order to provide the service. Google's computers process the information in your email for various purposes, including formatting and displaying the information to you, delivering targeted related information (such as advertisements and related links), preventing unsolicited bulk email (spam), backing up your email, and other purposes relating to offering you Gmail. Because we keep back-up copies of data for the purposes of recovery from errors or system failure, residual copies of email may remain on our systems for some time, even after you have deleted messages from your mailbox or after the termination of your account.

Handy Hank

on Jul 06, 2005

Anything you do online can be potentially tracked. It would be illegal for Gmail to use info to sell or to commit fraud etc.

Left wing commie conspiracy theorists.

thomassen

on Jul 06, 2005

"major security risk" ... when was email ever safe?

Double Zero

on Jul 06, 2005

I feel Gmail = very very very bad.

But Google = very very good.

Personally I hate them both..LoL.. But that has nothing to do with privacy concerns..

Email is not secure private or anything else..If you dont want people reading everything you have to say, dont Email it..or for a slight piece of mind encrypt it..but then that only keeps honest people honest because we all know codes were created for one reason..to be broken..LoL...

Like it or not, your Instant messaging, Email, Private Chat room meetings, Gmail accounts are all accessable to those that really want to evesdrop, snoop, spy or just generally be a nosey pain in the rear...
That much is simply reality...

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