OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Fri Feb 8 00:29:09 UTC 2008


On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:31:26AM -0500, Jeremy Gransden wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2008 4:52 PM, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> >
> > you can get billions storing everything and closely working with
> > government, and even privates - selling the data raw or processed.
> >
> > of course not officially, but when talking billions of $ such things, or
> > honesty, truth etc. turns to "who cares".
> >
> 
> I did not think of the $ aspect. I was thinking more on a functional
> level.  Data can be a very lucrative business... Maybe thats where
> Google makes all of its money. That makes it rather intriguing though.
> 
> With that said, I do not consider any type of email a confidential
> communication medium. If someone wants to read your email; I'm sure,
> with enough hard work, they will.

That's what encryption is for -- privacy.

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