Gmail = bad

major security risk!!!

from WinCustomize Forums
Google has been naughty. They have kept every email that a gmail user has sent or recieved (the mail still got sent).
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 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well you'll have to decide if it's really proof or not, but here's a link that supports Tominated's statement.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Every person who has an email will have to give some privte information about themselves!! Even yahoo and msn keep personal information!!!

NEXT TIME YOU WRITE AN ARTICLE GET PROOF!!!
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
People are so paranoid. Everytime you send an e-mail do you know where it goes and how many people could possibly have access to it?
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The second sentence of this "article" is more than a bit unclear. I'm not even sure as to what it's supposed to mean.

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 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Google is everything, the air we breath, the sunlight we feel burn our skins, the water we bathe in. You can not escape google!

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im sorry
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I feel Gmail = very very very bad.

But Google = very very good.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Public secret. Not like they tried to hide that.

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 from JoeUser Forums Top
Anything you do online can be potentially tracked. It would be illegal for Gmail to use info to sell or to commit fraud etc.

Left wing commie conspiracy theorists.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"major security risk" ... when was email ever safe?
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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 from WinCustomize Forums Top
'Google reads your email!!'

Isnt that what spam filters do?
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Looks like the Gmen run the Gmail.....I don't have the energy for another conspiracy.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So pay cash for everything, stay off the internet, and do all of your communicating face to face in whispers
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
so you're telling me i shouldn't have emailed my home address, IP address, credit card info, SSN, the names of all of my friends and their phone numbers to that shady porn site i found 3 minutes ago? aw crap...
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
People are so paranoid. Everytime you send an e-mail do you know where it goes and how many people could possibly have access to it?


--Exactly, lately i've gotten about 30+ emails that are sent to people with similar names/emails..., at firs i didn't know who the sender was, thinking it was for me...well, i learned a few things, and have yet to open another email that looks suspicious...
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey!, just because we cant see them out there doesnt mean they arent watching us,,im not paranoid..am I? well..if I put on my cheap sunglasses they wont even know my name...LoL

Big brother is watching little brother, little brother is watching back..Oh boy..what a fine mess the internet really is..

And this surprises who?

Pardon my vagueness..But I just love being so...LoL
It confuses whoever may be listening as well!
Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top
The last time my ISPs email server crashed, I thought I had lost all my mail. Three days later they replaced it, only not only did I get my mail back, I got every email I had recieved for the last 6 months.

I'm thinking this kind of backup isn't rare, or skeery, unless you are discussing somethign that might provoke a search warrant.