Re: Which free webmail is safest?

Trevor Jakes wrote:
I had friends tell me not to use Google mail. One because of the whole scanning-indexing/ad-targeting issue, the other because they said Google reads all mail and attachments where as others (Hotmail, Yahoo!) only read mail you receive. I'm not counting on any security anyways (posted privacy policies are the legal equivalent of "it's our data now"), so it's more of an intellectual curiousity.

QUESTIONS:

1.
Is there a difference in personal privacy between Yahoo, MSN, and Google free web e-mail?

2.
If so, what differences exist?

-trev 
If you are storing mail on their systems, it can be, but probably won't be read.  If "probably" is not good enough for you, the thing to do is use the account with an offline reader and an encryption package, make an strong (4096 bits, and use a strong hash) RSA or DSA/El Gamal encryption key pair, have your buddies do the same, and send everything encrypted.  This way, even if it is stored on their systems, they cannot read it (unless maybe the NSA wants to).  It mostly depends on the trouble you want to go through.

~David~
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