----- Original Message ----- From: "xenlab.ezrpm"
All email is not private. Your ISP has your email, the government is scanning it for keywords, and it's plain text sent around the internet. Email is very easy to intercept, spoof, forge and fake. I can send 1,000 emails right now that look just like it came from you, in a dozen or so lines of code.
My ISP don't save all of my deleted mail, either, nor do they have a search engine combing it and cross-referencing it with other data that they collect.. http://www.google-watch.org/cgi-bin/cookie.htm "The CIA had to stop using a comparatively innocent log-analysis cookie that expired in 10 years, and their document search site isn't even used by many people. Google handles 200 million searches per day, and their cookie expires in 2038. One of Google's leading software engineers, Matt Cutts, has a top-secret clearance and used to work for the National Security Agency. Google doesn't even feel the need to defend their cookie policy; they merely laugh off anyone who inquires about it. " The cookie crumbles: http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/gcook.html "Your Internet service provider maintains logs that can trace your IP address to you as an individual at a particular point in time. This is especially true if you use broadband. But as time passes, many providers rotate their logs and the old data is deleted. Normally, the only way that your unique cookie ID at Google can be traced to you as an individual is through this IP address. However, as soon as you enter an email address on a Google form, it becomes easy for Google to assign your cookie ID to you as an individual. That's because your browser, at the precise point in time that you click your email address to Google on one of their forms, sends your Google cookie ID along with the email address you entered. Google is no fool. They will record this information so that it can be retrieved from their databases. Now they've tied your searching history to your email address. How hard is it to tie your email address to you as an individual? It's not hard at all. If you delete your Google cookie before you hand over your email address, then by the time you get to the form and submit your email, Google will have issued a new cookie that has an unused ID in it. This cookie ID will not match anything in Google's databases. After submitting your email, you should delete your new cookie too. That way your email address is tied to a cookie ID number that remains useless to Google." seek np: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/images/ivan090804-2015z.jpg