** 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.
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