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Email has no real security. Any electronic communication (email, text messaging, IM, phone calls) should be thought of as sending a postcard routed through whatever law enforcement office you least want to read it. Encryption can provide a modest amount of security, but not that much. I hate it in principle, but fear it less in practice. Anyone who monitors my electronic communications extensively deserves the deep boredom they will subject themselves to.
There are degrees of this of course, I reserve gmail for lists and various types of public communication where I receive huge numbers of emails. But I doubt my paid comcast email has substantially more personal privacy than gmail.
If your webmail has a spam filter, the content is being scanned by a bot before it comes to your inbox. All Google's done is have that same bot also flag adwords.
Plus at Google, your email gets read by pigeons.
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See, see! I told you! The right to avoid aviary abuse is crumbling underneath our feet!
I should become a luddite, huh?
Finally! Ringtones for the iPhone.
tommyrot, you got your 160GB iPod.
Woot!
Where are you hearing this? I thought the thing didn't start until 12:00 Pacific time.
Wait, that was 10:00 Pacific, 12 Central, right?
More amazing than the 160GB, it has 40 hours battery life for music and 7 hours video.
Are these gonna be in stores today? Is that what "shipping today" means?
I am helpless before the steve. again. dammit.
