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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Well now if the NSA is watching me, they are either bored or hungry.
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Assume they aren't bored.
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I knew someone that when an FBI agent moved in behind her, she thought the FBI was going to bug her phone.
Yes, I laughed.
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Did she say why she thought the FBI would want to?
Years ago, a chap on a mailing list I'm on worked for Google. It was in the days when Gmail was still an invitational beta service. He offered invites to the other list members. I grabbed one.
A woman on the list was all upset as the prospect that
Google could read her mail.
The Google chap simply explained that the stuff that read the mail was algorithms looking for keywords, to better suggest links to products since Gmail was ad supported.
I carefully bit my tongue, and
didn't ask why J. Random Human at Google would
want to, when she was simply one more of potentially millions of Gmail users. The Gmail developers have more important things to do, like make sure Gmail is up and running, and haven't time to snoop.
But then, I've never considered email secure technology. If it's
so private it would give me heartburn if it got out to the public, I either don't say it in email or use encryption (and I have yet to have a case where I felt the need to encrypt.) If you can successfully get to and read my mail store on Google's servers (and good luck with that), have at. Unless you're me, you'll be mystified or terminally bored.
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Dennis