-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 01-04-2011 9:15, Jerry escribió: ... > Personally, I consider Google's web e-mail application grossly > insecure. I further do not trust them for one millisecond to not be > scanning documents passing through their server(s). It would not > surprise me a bit to find out that one of their employees is actively > distributing confidential information on its subscribers.
I don't know about that, but that is what GPG is for. Any mail server we don't control might be scanning documents, and if they don't do it, it might be done elsewhere (have you heard about Echelon? I don't know if that thing exists, but a lot of people thought it was possible for them to "read" your emails). Fortunately, we have GPG, and Gmail provides SMTP, so it is really easy to setup thunderbird, install GPG, and nobody at Google will be able to read your messages (if you can make your correspondents to use GPG too). > While I do not claim that any of the other large web based operations > such as Yahoo or Hotmail are immune to problems; I honestly do not > believe that they actively engage nefarious acts to the degree of GMail. Again, I don't know, hotmail knows where I live (or at least it knows the block of houses where I live, they have 1/6 chance or so to drop a bomb in the right house), I had to provide my postal code. Gmail knows my phone number, but that was optional when I provided it (I've heard now it is mandatory, to prevent spammers creating accounts). Still, all of them could be involved in nefarious acts, and none of them will admit it, or provide statistics about their nefariousness. But one of them provide POP3 and SMTP, which allows you to use GPG or S/MIME for free, the other 2 charge for those services (or used to charge, last time I checked, that may have changed). Talking about insecurity of webmail apps, probably (but I don't have numbers about it, it's just my guess) the main problem is accessing to them using compromised computers. And what do all this have to do with GnuPG? Nothing, but all started with a spamm message received from the compromised account of a member of this list. And since compromised accounts is something that worries many of us (nobody want his/her own account to become compromised), we replied and talked of general stuff. Probably this thread dies today due to lack of interest. Best Regards -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJNllJqAAoJEMV4f6PvczxAdKgH/1cSb8bVx2yM86hd2bTtjN49 88Bjgy9Gs/Bax9I93Jl6s01Linuyr7e+3dikf7QOlPTW7h6eEalmbw4oA9irytp3 kYuveE5y2eB064W4b4gECCTMu88nmcJyck806eiawzK1yQQx+/Xehvys1ED1H9z7 FUivOVLED1yR52ZtlWvHia5WYMvIvyxNlsuRCz0CTVFNeeXdd9MX1vY1hfaLysPc IPLoF6s444obVxic2HvI+7r4HxCzEYDQorEptp9wK5hVhj+I/QtCV/j7/HCnwSlg YT3ZvxKIATUOp+P0wtvOaqIMz9zEXAXsidQgsSK8/PNXgb/kexX/bn7xCCMG+N4= =yBgM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
