RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Google Gmail...

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Jason Youngquist wrote:

[snip stuff I and others interpret as legalese saying "we won't be 
 held responsible for timely deletions just in case"]

> About outsourcing email to Google, not sure how companies would
> like it if all of their semi-confidential email was still stored
> on Google's servers even after an employee or the company went out
> of business and the accounts were deleted.....

You've got a point about confidentiality I guess, but even now your
email can be subpoenaed and, if what they want has been deleted, you
have to document that you had a system-wide deletion policy in
effect when the email in question was sent/received.  Actually, 
Google could help with this for folks who pay by rolling a secure 
deletion (say after 1 year) around their servers for corporate 
clients, but NOT allowing destruction before then.
 
> Sounds like the FBI and NSA would love to have a plugin that
> connects to the Gmail service....Brings a whole new meaning to the
> phrase "I read your email"

Actually, I'm definitely supposing that reading email is done 
through SSL.  The NSA et al. can already read as many packets of 
traffic (email and anything else) as they like.  Actually, this is 
another reason why having Google do it all could have some benefit 
for some: email sent from one gmail.com address to another probably 
never leaves their servers as it's being delivered.

I'm telling ya, this idea has legs. :-)

jking
 

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