Re: got gmai?

Cliff Wells wrote:

> I'm a bit wary of
> Google's sudden commercial turn.  They've got the resources
> (information) to become a serious threat to personal privacy

It's hard to become a threat to something that's never existed.  The 
only privacy we've ever enjoyed is of the "security through obscurity" 
type, and we all know how robust a paradigm that is.

It's simply a fact that modern life creates an audit log.  It's largely 
involuntary, mostly unavoidable, and not necessarily a bad thing.

Compared to what other players have been doing for decades, giving 
Google the power to read my mailing lists hardly even registers.  None 
of the lists I'm on are private in any meaningful way anyhow.

FWIW,

Dylan