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There are lots of concerns: * your local mail client might get different E-mail content every time mail is downloaded, which is not the intent of IMAP, * Link
by jwr 13y ago
There are lots of concerns:
* your local mail client might get different E-mail content every time mail is downloaded, which is not the intent of IMAP,
* LinkedIn (hence, the NSA) gets full access to your E-mail,
* once people get hooked it's easy to transition to inserting ads, or "more helpful LinkedIn content",
I find all this rather disturbing and would never use this service.
- carbocation 13y agoYes, I would never want them (or virtually any third party) to have the ability to access my inbox, much less stand in between my mail provider and myself.
- r00fus 13y ago> * LinkedIn (hence, the NSA) gets full access to your E-mail, What if I believe that Google (hence the NSA) already has access to my Gmail? What's the cost to my privacy if it's already lost? My major concern is that if I provide Linkedin my credentials, I now have doubled my attack surface for intrusion by non-governmental actors.
- rfnslyr 13y agoBefore every email as yourself "if this email went public, would anyone care?" If I ever answer "yes", I don't send it. I either call or meet in person assuming we're not too remote.
- tedunangst 13y agoThat may work for outgoing mail, but this is reading incoming mail, which you have considerably less control over.
- deveac 13y ago>What if I believe that Google (hence the NSA) already has access to my Gmail? What's the cost to my privacy if it's already lost? Can I have your gmail and password? If not, why not?
- 001sky 13y agoYou're doubling your surface for anything unethical, too. It not just the NSA, so it really makes no sense to take additional risk in this regards. You are adding an [or] operator, one that can lead to a complete failure mode. This is the opposite of risk diversification. Unless I'm missing something.
- be-prepared 13y agoDitch Gmail and host your own email server.
- encoderer 13y agoYes, Google has your email, but not your credentials. A breach of your email exposes all the email you have now. Bad, yes. A breach of your credentials exposes all the email you get until you change them, and if you don't know to change them...
- rurounijones 13y ago> I find all this rather disturbing and would never use this service. You don't have a choice. If the person on the other end is using this service then your emails to them are hoovered.