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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If anyone is considering using Google Mail, these two should be read FIRST: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/36778.html http://www.google-watch.org/email.html Google's cookie is an index for all your searches until 2038, and sits alongside an Orkut cookie that tells Google - or friendly law enforcement officials or marketeers - exactly who you are. Google's Gmail will complete the picture, indexing private electronic discourse under the main Google search cookie. "Google kind of makes it easy to connect all the dots together." ... as unnerving as a President making jokes while citizens are being dismembered. ... they've tied your searching history to your email address. ... it's all available to government officials all over the world, under whatever legal procedures are used in any particular jurisdiction. It is also available to civil litigants under discovery procedures authorised by a court. ============= With lots of media speculation on electronic interception of possible terrorist communications via email, the possibility of adding your searching habits to your MI6/NSA profile must be attractive to the authorities. It's simple to avoid and Google mail isn't exactly essential but the story does illustrate how disparate systems can be linked with minimal user involvement. - -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAcBRIiAEJSii8s+MRAqtBAKCzbxwoEWppVyLaOE/BVXWMAjQrPwCfQiNH fARRnK4DoQJHp0PFaJKSpHc= =ZlgE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.