This just HAS to be said periodically, since newbies by the dozen don't seem to consider basic personal safety issues online. If you're writing something sensitive to, let's say, your grandma and you know that it might cause some damage if certain outside entities could read your sweet correspondence, then don't !@$^#ING USE GMAIL!
(Or yahoo, or hotmail, or aol, or your .edu accounts).
SERIOUSLY! Why is this not obvious?
Gmail's most salient feature is that Google BRAGS that they won't ever delete your past correspondence, AND they have computerized message readers that scan everything in your account with an "auto-reader," AND it's not encrypted, nor offshore, nor secure, nor kept away from the eyes of the authorities who run poor Grandma's nursing home.
Google: Why do we let this creepy company spy on our emails? | Mail Online
Even worse is when Grandma gets an email from her loving family members that's "sent from my Verizon iPhone" or something, which is like waving a banner that says, "Hey everyone--come read my private emails with ease!"
If you want your letters to Grandma to be safe and secure, take the most basic step of finding an encrypted, offshore private account and using a proxy to access it. Otherwise, you might find "weird uncle Bob" showing up at your door for an unexpected family reunion because he's been reading your emails without you knowing it. Sheesh.
:banghead:
(Or yahoo, or hotmail, or aol, or your .edu accounts).
SERIOUSLY! Why is this not obvious?
Gmail's most salient feature is that Google BRAGS that they won't ever delete your past correspondence, AND they have computerized message readers that scan everything in your account with an "auto-reader," AND it's not encrypted, nor offshore, nor secure, nor kept away from the eyes of the authorities who run poor Grandma's nursing home.
Google: Why do we let this creepy company spy on our emails? | Mail Online
Even worse is when Grandma gets an email from her loving family members that's "sent from my Verizon iPhone" or something, which is like waving a banner that says, "Hey everyone--come read my private emails with ease!"
If you want your letters to Grandma to be safe and secure, take the most basic step of finding an encrypted, offshore private account and using a proxy to access it. Otherwise, you might find "weird uncle Bob" showing up at your door for an unexpected family reunion because he's been reading your emails without you knowing it. Sheesh.
:banghead: