On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Guy Boisvert boisvert.guy@videotron.ca wrote:
Good point. Does Google supports encryption?
On top of that, "Echelon" is listening... As for unencrypted emails, it's child play.
A couple of points.
1) Regardless of whether or not Google can look into people's emails, it should be pointed out that the same could be said of so can many ISPs and specialised email hosting providers from whom people have their email hosted. I understand that Google deploys some form of encrypted filesystem for Gmail's store, but couldn't tell you much beyond that.
You want your mail store to be secure - host it yourself and apply whatever encryption methods you see fit.
2) There is a plug-in for Firefox which will give your GPG capabilities with Gmail:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Encrypt-your-Gmail-Email/