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Exactly what I'm thinking. I thought this tinfoil hat mentality has died with slashdot. Face it: any e-mail provider can read your e-mail, including the e-mail
by DrJokepu 17y ago
Exactly what I'm thinking. I thought this tinfoil hat mentality has died with slashdot. Face it: any e-mail provider can read your e-mail, including the e-mail provider of your recipient. The sysadmin in your office can read your e-mail. Your ISP can read your e-mail even if you host your e-mail server (unless you use https). Same goes for the ISP of the recipient. The only way to be safe was if everyone hosted their own e-mail servers and used PGP/GPG to encrypt their e-mail.
Maybe it's time to stop being paranoid and start concentrating or real problems? Like pondering on how to create an e-book reader that doesn't suck or discovering how to cure AIDS and cancer efficiently?
- gloob 17y agoIt's possible that my priorities are simply out of touch with those of the mainstream, but for me "half of the world can read the email of the other half of the world" is a bigger problem than "ebook readers aren't very good right now". The notion that we should stop caring about privacy because a couple of network protocols have design flaws is silly.
- vanelsas 17y agoTwo wrongs do not make a right. Google needs to step up and deal with this.
- DrJokepu 17y agoHow could they possibly solve it? One of the most important features of Google Mail is fast searching of e-mails. For them to search e-mails, they need to be able to index them so they can't just encrypt the emails on their storage. Frankly, for me the abilty to search my emails quickly outweights the risk of some nosey Google employee with a shallow private life reading my private email or bank stuff or whatever.
- vanelsas 17y agoLet Google ask you specifically if you are ok with that. You get fast search, and you give up some privacy in return. A clear and explicit exchange.