Gmail = bad
major security risk!!!
Tuesday, July 5, 2005 by Tominated | Discussion: Internet
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.
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Reply #2 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 12:43 AM
Reply #4 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 3:51 AM
You should read Dan Brown's Digital Fortress (author of The Da Vinci Code etc) you'd love that
Reply #5 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 5:56 AM
NEXT TIME YOU WRITE AN ARTICLE GET PROOF!!!
Reply #6 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 7:17 AM
Reply #7 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 7:28 AM
| 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.
Reply #8 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 10:56 AM
| 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.
Reply #9 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 11:19 AM
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.
Reply #10 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 11:55 AM
YAhahahahahahhah
im sorry
Reply #11 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 12:31 PM
But Google = very very good.
Reply #12 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 12:33 PM
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. |
Reply #13 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 12:44 PM
Left wing commie conspiracy theorists.
Reply #14 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 1:45 PM
Reply #15 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 5:37 PM
| 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...
Reply #16 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 7:09 PM
Isnt that what spam filters do?
Reply #17 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 7:57 PM
Reply #18 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 8:05 PM
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".
Reply #19 Wednesday, July 6, 2005 9:45 PM
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Reply #1 Tuesday, July 5, 2005 11:49 PM