Compare the terms and conditions regarding privacy. In a very fragile nut shell:
You get only snail mail spam from your credit card company and even that is not targeted. Your ISP is not allowed to spy on you, at least not in Israel and not without a warrant. Your voice services providers are under heavy redgulations too. Google has none ( well, almost), you are actually allowing them to do whatever they want, without telling you. Anyway, as Nadav said, just use encryption. Unless of course you are wearing your tin foil hat:) Moish -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nadav Har'El Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:14 PM To: Erez D Cc: IGLU Mailing list Subject: Re: webmail client, NG? On Tue, Jan 01, 2008, Erez D wrote about "Re: webmail client, NG?": > what about the fact that google knows everything about you ? How is this any different from the fact that my ISP "knows" everything about what I surf (much more than Google, by the way)? That my credit card company and bank "know" everything I buy? That my phone company "knows" everything I speak on the phone? At some point, you simply have to assume that "knowing" and "abusing" is not the same thing. Google can abuse the content of your mail, just like your phone company can abuse the content of your phone calls. But both companies have a clean track record (existed for several years with several million users and have abused none of them), so isn't it sensible that they won't screw with you? In any case, for content which is really secret, you shouldn't trust Google, your ISP or anybody - just use client-side cryptography. If you get an encrypted mail to gmail, there is no way for Google to read it, even though they have the encrypted content. A "secret" site would be using SSL, prevent nasties like your ISP, phone compnay, or Google from sniffing the connection. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Jan 1 2008, 23 Tevet 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |My typos are intentional copyright traps. http://nadav.harel.org.il | ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
