Google Says Gmail Users Should Have No Expectation of Privacy | FDL News Desk
In response to a lawsuit Google has disclosed that, from the company’s perspective, no one should be expecting their emails to remain private. This is likely news to most gmail users who create a password thinking that limits access to their account and probably expect their emails to be private.
…all these guys swooning over Google's saying email isn't private just haven't been around long enough to figure out what the internet is all about. Those of us who have, old timers — which, in internet time, means guys who've been here more than a week — learned long ago that email is about as private as a postcard and not the place to write any really secret stuff. This is the argument for email encryption which, although free software makes it easy enough, has stubbornly remained impractical for use with casual correspondence.
In fact (listen carefully here, Bunky) there is almost certainly a system administrator or two (or a hundred) in your own network sphere who can access all your accounts at will. This doesn't mean any one will, of course, any more than one will read your postcard (Having a Wonderful Time!). But one could.
This is not a new problem. The ancients had systems for concealing the meaning of secret messages. And no doubt had the same concerns — security or opression — as Snowden. This is one question worth being concerned about (another: why didn't we see this coming?), of course. But dude, get a grip.
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