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Under the Stored Communications Act, law enforcement may get emails or other information under third party control with only a subpoena. Retrieving email via t
by linkregister 9y ago
Under the Stored Communications Act, law enforcement may get emails or other information under third party control with only a subpoena.
Retrieving email via the POP3 protocol typically deletes the email upon retrieval, making it impossible for the third party to comply with requests for already-retrieved emails.
- bhandziuk 9y ago>POP3 protocol typically deletes the email upon retrieval What POP3 client are you using that does this? I've not seen it before. It gets marked as read but that's it.
- linkregister 9y agoGeez, Eudora? Outlook Express maybe? I haven’t used POP3 in a decade. It used to delete from the server after downloading locally. This was when most email mailboxes had a capacity of 10MB.
- bhandziuk 9y agoI'm writing something that uses POP3 right now and thankfully it doesn't delete anything. I'd have to do things a lot differently if that were the case
- xfer 9y agoSo you think google storage systems work like your normal filesystem?
- linkregister 9y agoYou don’t think that files can be deleted from a Google file system? Does gmail even store email like that, in flat files?
- xfer 9y agoThey can be but not instantaneously, because of multiple replicated copies in a distributed environment.