Re: anybody want a gmail invite?

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 21:45, Royce Williams wrote:
> W.D.McKinney wrote, On 10/5/2004 6:25 PM:
> > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 14:56, Beau V.C. Bellamy wrote:
> >
> >>On Monday 04 October 2004 01:15, Scott Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >>>GMail is...
> >>>
> >>>Great. Simple. Easy. Intuitive. Clean.
> >>>
> >>>Awesome.
> >>
> >>Insecure.
> >
> > That's the truth. Seems there is a lot of people that don't care though.
>
> Insecure in what way? As I understand it, it's no less secure than any
> other mail system. Just because automated systems are indexing some
> keywords and serving you ads based on them (without storing historical
> data -- as I understand it, anyway), this doesn't make the system any
> more "insecure" than any other. I suspect that the system would have
> to be compromised to get access to your mail -- which is a risk for any
> system.
>

They admit to use more indexing than just to send ads. Therefore, would
like me look at your snail mail and file it for you ? :-)

Dee

> Don't get me wrong -- there's something creepy about the idea that my
> Smurf Fetish Digest emails will generate some scary appliance ads. But
> I don't think that it makes my email any more insecure than it would be
> on any other system. If there's some analysis out there that says
> otherwise, I'd love to hear it; I haven't done a lot of homework on this
> one yet.
>
> -royce

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