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Originally Posted by alsaan
Usually all communication with your mail provider is performed over an encrypted https connection, so there is no risk of Amazon or any other party eavesdropping sensitive information.
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Well... actually no. The only popular email provider that does that is gmail. Yahoo and Hotmail are not over SSL. So email in general is not very secure to begin with. On your Kindle, perhaps less so. It depends on how Amazon is running as your proxy. If it's simply routing packets, that's one thing and then gmail would be secure. If it's acting as a full proxy, then no. Not at all. That's because as a full proxy, it's Amazon that has a SSL connection to Google. You might even have a SSL connection to Amazon, but Amazon has full access to your data. Here's my real world example. So you write a letter and seal it in an envelope. If Amazon is just routing packets then Amazon takes your letter and delivers it sealed to the recipient. If it's acting as a full proxy. Amazon opens up that letter, makes a copy and puts that copy in a sealed evelope and delivers it to the recipient. In the latter case, Amazon has full access to your data.