From: "Bob" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:39:17 -0800
To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: David Pogue wakes up about WIFI encryption
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** Reply to message from "Adam McNutt" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on
Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:05:48 -0700

> Actually, they may scan it and use it for their targeted text ads  
> which only show in their web interface.  Show me where they have sent  
> it to third parties or have disclosed otherwise.  Much like Pogue's  
> rantings about intercepted wireless, there is no substantiation to  
> such claims.  In fact, I'd personally trust Google more as my mail  
> server than most other providers out there.  Laws may say they have  
> to disclose, but if they don't, how will you know otherwise?

Well I don't trust Google.  I wanted to look at something and the only way to
see it was to sign up with Google.  Whenever I give any web site an email
address it is a random alpha-numeric address which can not be guessed and never
used by me before (like the one used for this list).  I had spam to that email
address within two hours.


> That said, I do run a mail server at home and my office as well.  At  
> any point in the hop to any server, anything can be intercepted.   
> It's part of using public backbones, and the internet in general.   
> You have to put trust into any service where you are passing personal  
> information.  You can't control it completely unless you lay your own  
> dedicated lines.  Much like sending mail to this list.  :-)

I treat everything I do on the internet as being seen by the public at large. 
If I want to keep it private I will encrypt it so that the only person to see
it will decrypt it.

-- 
Robert Blair