-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 09:37, Wei Chen wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/04/08 07:07, Wei Chen wrote: >> [snip] > >>> Web mail can also be a feasible solution. I use gmail to retrieve and >>> aggregate emails from all my other mail boxes. In this way I can read >>> mails from any places where an internet connection is available. >>> Other merits over local IMAP include that you do not have to keep your >>> desktop machine on for all day long, which is a saving of the >>> environment, the probability of data loss on google clusters can be >>> considered smaller than that of a desktop disk fault, and gmail can also >>> be accessed using IMAP. >> Call me tin-foil boy, but I'd rather not have all my sometimes- >> sensitive email sitting on the servers of a company who's whole >> business is based on "grepping" files looking for keywords, and >> which has a proven track records of sharing said data with decidedly >> authoritarian governments. > > > Yes. What you said may be correct, but I'd rather not have my sensitive
Now that I think about it, though, was it Yahoo or Google that turned over emails from dissenters to the PRC? > information written in an email. Our daily sent emails, if not expressly > encrypted and signed, are by nature not secure, unfortunately. I hear what you are saying, and we all know that packet capture does happen. But it's much *easier* to analyze -- and turn over to authorities -- emails that are sitting in some company's DC than it is to search all the packets zipping thru a mega-router. Note the emphasis on *easier*. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHpzYoS9HxQb37XmcRAu0PAKC58CehpuY7ySqMjHOuUvzlwyNKeACg0djc OaIrKUOzISfPGcMzmVQZhns= =cqLe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
