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What does the way you access your data has anything to do with where it is stored? Just because you read your emails from a local copy, don't fool yourself into
by pestaa 13y ago
What does the way you access your data has anything to do with where it is stored? Just because you read your emails from a local copy, don't fool yourself into thinking that the drawbacks of the cloud no longer applies to you.
Now, if you were to host your own mail gateway, that is a different matter entirely.
- nileshtrivedi 13y agoUsing a standalone desktop app allows you to use encryption (PGP/GPG) while continuing to use hosted services like Gmail/Hotmail. In other words, you can again start treating networks as dumb pipes.
- zimbatm 13y agoThey still get access to the "metadata" though
- fakeer 13y agoFake it, then. Fake yor location, fake your mac address, fake your time and timezone. &c.
- mike-cardwell 13y agoYou can't fake the IP address you connect from. You can't fake the email address you're sending to. You can't fake the account you're using to send. You can't fake the time that you connect.
- fakeer 13y agoThen use Tor. Have a disposable email address. You don't have to fake the account just make one just for this purpose. Well, time you cannot fake but with just known value of time and many other unknown variables the equation and possible solution would be useless, practically.