On Sun, 18 May 2008, Tom Diehl wrote: > If you are sending secret or sensitive information via unencrypted > email you already have a bigger problem then weather or not google > is harvesting info. Email by design is insecure. Why anyone would > believe otherwise is unclear to me. If you are encrypting it than I > would argue that it does not matter if google tries to harvest > information from it. There's data and then there's metadata. The former, as you note, can be protected via standard encryption techniques. The latter -- e.g., who sent messages to whom and when -- might be just as important, and it's not possible to encrypt. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/