Saturday, July 17, 2004
Slashdot Thread on Google, GMail and Privacy
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=114696&cid=9714907
"True. Anyone using a webmail service is putting a lot of trust in a company not holding personal missives for private gain. But what's to say that any mailserver out of your hands isn't logging full copies of everything you send?
Which is the better path?
1. Spread a tenth of your data between each of ten commercial providers, each with x% chance of abusing it.
2. Put all of your information with a single operator with that same chance.
I mean, if you're doing seriously dodgy stuff, then something like Echelon is going to bust you anyway."
more at URL
¶ 10:11 PM
"True. Anyone using a webmail service is putting a lot of trust in a company not holding personal missives for private gain. But what's to say that any mailserver out of your hands isn't logging full copies of everything you send?
Which is the better path?
1. Spread a tenth of your data between each of ten commercial providers, each with x% chance of abusing it.
2. Put all of your information with a single operator with that same chance.
I mean, if you're doing seriously dodgy stuff, then something like Echelon is going to bust you anyway."
more at URL
¶ 10:11 PM
