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Maldoror
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Is Gmail safe?
#3188547 - 09/27/04 08:54 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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A friend Is about to send me Gmail. How secure is Gmail because if it is secure I would love to use it.
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Re: Is Gmail safe? [Re: Maldoror]
#3188741 - 09/27/04 09:31 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I would say gmail is a lot les secure then most pop3. Im sure google saves all your emails. I think they show you adds based on what types of email you get.
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Re: Is Gmail safe? [Re: Maldoror]
#3188862 - 09/27/04 09:58 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Maldoror
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Re: Is Gmail safe? [Re: Red]
#3188907 - 09/27/04 10:10 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks alot I will not use this thing it doesnt sound good at all. The space just is'nt worth it.
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Reject
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Re: Is Gmail safe? [Re: Maldoror]
#3190872 - 09/28/04 09:17 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah, I have a gmail account, and I love using it but not as my primary email address. Like right now I'm taking a bunch of classes at school that involve a lot of graphic design work, document layout, powerpoint presentations, and so forth. I find it quite convenient to have this address for the sake emailing these large documents between the group and between my computer and the lab computers. My normal email account can't handle files nearly as large as the 10mb attachments Gmail can handle.
Like I said, Gmail is great to use for some things... but I wouldn't use it as a primary email address.
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Re: Is Gmail safe? [Re: Maldoror]
#3191550 - 09/28/04 01:12 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Its worth it to have an extra account for storage space... like for example you could just have files/attachments mailed there but not use it as your primary account.
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Red
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Re: Is Gmail safe? [Re: eris]
#3192721 - 09/28/04 06:21 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Did you know that google owns ALL Rights to anything you send through them? Any ideas, designs, art. ANYTHING YOU SEND BECOMES THEIR PROPERTY.
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Re: Is Gmail safe? [Re: Red]
#3193099 - 09/28/04 07:35 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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That's scary.
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Re: Is Gmail safe? [Re: Red]
#3194199 - 09/29/04 01:06 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I would think that would entangle them in some pretty nasty copyright lawsuits over time. Be that as it may, it's a good idea not to use a browser-based email for your freaky stuff...
Edited by Le_Canard (09/29/04 03:12 AM)
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Zaphire
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Re: Is Gmail safe? [Re: Le_Canard]
#3237203 - 10/09/04 06:14 PM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is making me very queasy..
However, thanks for pointing out.
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shobimono
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Re: Is Gmail safe? [Re: Zaphire]
#3237552 - 10/09/04 09:05 PM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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Gmail is no less safe than any other free web based email. If you think that yahoo or hotmail or whatever is safer than gmail, then you are fooling yourself. The only truly safe way to send email is to use heavy encryption like pgp. Google can say they own your work or anything sent through their mailserver, but that is a load of crap, I think AOL did the same thing years ago. If you wrote it, it's copyrighted by you, and some lame attempt by them to add a user license signing over all rights to them would fail miserably in court. I mean come on, if I type in a poem that someone else wrote and send it through their mail server they think they now own the copyright on that poem, give me a break!
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Re: Is Gmail safe? [Re: shobimono]
#3238440 - 10/10/04 04:23 AM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yes, sounds fair enough.. I just had a false sense of security, don't know exactly why though. Google's logos are so brightly colored, I guess it makes me love them.
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