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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:35:22 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [IP] A criticism of Gmail and a call for encryption everywhere [priv] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <http://v2.listbox.com/doc/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <http://v2.listbox.com/subscribe/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:04:02 -0400 From: jordan pollack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [IP] Fwd: [Politech] A criticism of Gmail and a call for encryption everywhere [priv] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Encrypting your mail to refuse Google its ad revenue will be rejected as an exploit for free storage, as will be only sending email to yourself, sharing your password so others can download the Gig of MP3's or Porn, taking multiple accounts, etc. There hasnt been a free storage on the internet scheme which hasn't collapsed because the porn and warez pirates are so diligent at inventing exploits. Even reading scrozzled text won't stop someone from setting up 100 free accounts. Google will have to telephone you or take a credit card or get some other strong human ID. I do think that a private lifetime online message archive (with search and a desired email brand) backed by storage rental by the megabyteyear is a viable business model and proposed it to Google in June '02. But the untenability of Google's spymail and "free 1Gig" was a surprise to me. I made a joke that when the fake Kerry sex scandal came out on Drudge, it could leave him girded against "the prostate issue" with a fake media "virility halo". The masses like leaders with extra maleness, like Clinton and Schwarzenneger. Gmail's flaws have led to extreme media coverage, "pumping up" the stock candidate "virility halo" prior to its IPO. Jordan ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
