Gmail only keeps in the clear what you leave in the clear.

s/a hostile act/less useful to power users than filter but notify


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:48 PM, James A. Donald <jam...@echeque.com> wrote:

> On 2013-05-21 3:08 AM, Mark Seiden wrote:
>
>> (i know that at least jake and ian understand all the nuances here,
>> probably better than me.)
>>
>> bus still, i would like you to consider, for a moment, this question:
>>
>> suppose there were a service that intentionally wanted to protect
>> recipients of communications
>> from malicious traffic?   when i was at $big_provider, i spent an awful
>> lot of time and energy
>> communicating with colleagues and sharing threat intelligence about bad
>> guys.
>>
>
> Gmail is very efficient at filtering out malicious traffic.  It also spies
> on all its customers and keeps all their mail in the clear forever.
>
> For this reason I use mail services that perform absolutely no filtering,
> and do my own filtering.
>
> If I get filtered, I want to know it.  Furtive filtering is a hostile act.
>
>
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