Getting e-mail from GMail but without keeping messages

[Mike McCarty]

Steve Siegfried wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
> 
>>On 2/20/07, Les <hlhowell at pacbell.net> wrote:
>>
>>>>>>I do not want to store messages locally to minimize the risk of them
>>>>>>being spied by someone else. With the CustomizeGoogle extension of
>>>>>>Firefox, one can read GMail accounts with the https protocol, which
>>>>>>encrypts the communications between my machine and GMail servers.
>>>>>
>>>>>But are HTTP pages cached in your browser?
>>>>>
>>>>>I'd suggest that your mail cannot be casually spied upon on your
>>>>>computer if you do not share log-ins, and don't leave your computer
>>>>>without logging out or locking out access.
>>>>
>>>>But the traffic containing the messages may be spied between my
>>>>computer and the GMail server. If the traffic obeys to the https
>>>>protocol, hence it may be spied but it will be useless for the spier.
>>>>
>>>>Paul
>>>>
>>>
>>>You are chasing the wrong suspect.  GMAIL keeps EVERYTHING!!!  It never
>>>dies.
>>>Your mail may remain on their servers and be searchable forever.  If you
>>>want to secure mail of a specific nature, you must use local encryption
>>>and you and the receiving party need your own encryption/decryption
>>>processes, preferably on a system that is never accessable to the
>>>external (www) network.
>>
>>I am not chasing GMAIL; I am trying to avoid that someone of the local
>>system administration team spies my e-mail, although I think none of
>>them really cares about my messages... :-)
>>
>>Paul
> 
> 
> Unlike snail mail or your conversations on company provided telephones
> (both of which give you a reasonable expectation of privacy in the
> 4'th amendment sense),  you have no right to privacy on any computer
> or network provided by your employer.  And since your employer owns
> the computer and network gear, they also have the right to "inspect"
> it any time and in any manner they see fit.
> 
> Thus if you're concerned that anyone from the company where you work
> is monitoring your email, you need to keep your email completely off
> the company's systems _and_ you should NOT read that email from any
> of their gear.  Using any of your employer's gear to read your email,

Actually, in the USA, an employer in that circumstance has a right
to inspect the e-mail.

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Mike
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