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 2)

EventHorizon

on Jul 06, 2005

'Google reads your email!!'

Isnt that what spam filters do?

NightTrainthedark

on Jul 06, 2005

Looks like the Gmen run the Gmail.....I don't have the energy for another conspiracy.

Jafo

on Jul 06, 2005

The link in #2 makes for interesting reading.

The issue is with the extensive and long-term data collection/storage....where eventually a person's total identity and history will emerge. All that's needed is a search/correlation 'engine' to pinpoint an individual....and I'm fairly sure Google can dig one of those up.

A corporate [private] global database ...... gleaned by 'overt subterfuge' aka 'the blissfully ignorant' ...... pretty neat, really...as IF they make Gmail 'indespensible' everyone will be obliged to interact with gmail accounts...either having them or responding to them..... and it's just SOOO much more than what a local ISP can do.....they aren't reaching out globally.

For this to succeed Gmail 'needs' to be as big/universal/popular as possible...so sitting in a corner and waiting for customers won't work....critical mass won't be reached. What's needed is a self-seeding marketing strategy...where it's 'pyramid' in nature.....oh, yes...they did that.

Most importantly....reassure your new 'flock' as often as necessary that you are not 'evil' and all is above board..... keeps them happy and contented .... fattening quietly in the fields....

Yes, it's simple commercialism .... proffiteering through commodity generation/marketing .... but the 'commodity' is information.....personal information.

Yes, that's just like your frequent fliers points on your credit card... and other data collections, etc...

But it's one HECK OF A LOT bigger....and potentially far more dangerous.

It's all about "power corrupts ... and absolute power corrupts - absolutely"....

And...

"Knowledge is power".

Boss019

on Jul 06, 2005

So pay cash for everything, stay off the internet, and do all of your communicating face to face in whispers

Boss019

on Jul 06, 2005

And for God's sake, don't register Windows

cal0140

on Jul 06, 2005

so you're telling me i shouldn't have emailed my home address, IP address, credit card info, SSN, the names of all of my friends and their phone numbers to that shady porn site i found 3 minutes ago? aw crap...

Boss019

on Jul 06, 2005

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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?

--Exactly, lately i've gotten about 30+ emails that are sent to people with similar names/emails..., at firs i didn't know who the sender was, thinking it was for me...well, i learned a few things, and have yet to open another email that looks suspicious...

Double Zero

on Jul 06, 2005

Hey!, just because we cant see them out there doesnt mean they arent watching us,,im not paranoid..am I? well..if I put on my cheap sunglasses they wont even know my name...LoL

Big brother is watching little brother, little brother is watching back..Oh boy..what a fine mess the internet really is..

And this surprises who?

Pardon my vagueness..But I just love being so...LoL
It confuses whoever may be listening as well!

bakerstreet

on Jul 06, 2005

The last time my ISPs email server crashed, I thought I had lost all my mail. Three days later they replaced it, only not only did I get my mail back, I got every email I had recieved for the last 6 months.

I'm thinking this kind of backup isn't rare, or skeery, unless you are discussing somethign that might provoke a search warrant.

Tominated

on Jul 07, 2005

I forgot to say that they can access the info whenever they like.

on Jul 07, 2005

Hmmm... interesting points, I agree with some of the 'both'. I only would say: Unless you have something to hide, you have nothing to fear.

on Jul 07, 2005

Jafo.. ya missed three dates

Jos Corts

on Jul 07, 2005

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HOTMAIL, YAHOO¡¡ TODOS PUEDEN LEER Y TENER ACCESO A TUS CORREOS¡¡¡¡
COMO ES ESO DE TENER CIENTOS DE CORREOS EN TU SERVIDOR, Y NO VER ALGUNOS? NO SERÁ INTERESANTE¡ ADEMÁS, SÓLO NUNCA MANDEN SUS NÚMEROS DE TARJETA POR E-MAIL¡ Y YA

cal0140

on Jul 07, 2005

lol wow, i'm glad public schools and our colleges are pushing foreign language study... it's nice not to have to refer to a translator for once!

I forgot to say that they can access the info whenever they like.

thank you, captain obvious.

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