Have you made efforts to privatize your email

[skieur]

If you are so worried about your gmail or yahoo email being public
then get a private email account

gmail is used to outsource alot of companies. Google does the firewall, etc and are able to dedicated more resources to it.
Corporations that buy less costly firewall, antivirus strategies etc are more likely to get hacked more easily .... so outsource.

putting the privacy paragraph on the bottom just allows them some legal foothold if someone else keeps it and uses it against them. kinda.

Got lost in whatever you are trying to say for example: "gmail is used to outsorce a lot of companies"???????
Google does NOT have a firewall so "Google does the firewall" ??????

and the last sentence?????

 

[JacaRanda]

Pretty much the same thing as said about getting pictures stolen. Life is a chance and then we die. Okay, that was not helpful.

 

[skieur]

Pretty much the same thing as said about getting pictures stolen. Life is a chance and then we die. Okay, that was not helpful.

"Life is a chance" certainly and much more so, if you don't take any control over it.

Your personal information on the net is public, if you have made no effort to keep it private or confidential. There is no chance about it. Personal information is also sold on the net and advertisers, insurance companies, the tax man and others put it to good use from their point of view.

Insurance companies for example used to hire private investigators to follow a supposed accident victim around to see if he was really seriously injured. Now, all they do is a Facebook search. Your friends may be interested in the renovations you are doing to your house, but the tax man is even more interested. If you ever get involved in a lawsuit (usually lasts 5 years) or divorce, there will likely be one heck of a lot of people interested in your presence on the net and anything that you communicated about the case.

I repeat that taking control over your privacy on the net is not chance, but it does require some effort and action on the part of the individual.

 

[runnah]

Then you must be one of the few that do not get annoyed by advertisements, spam, and emails to send money, invest, buy Viagra etc.

I don't mind and plus my erections have never been firmer and more satisfying.

 

[skieur]

Then you must be one of the few that do not get annoyed by advertisements, spam, and emails to send money, invest, buy Viagra etc.

I don't mind and plus my erections have never been firmer and more satisfying.

Mmm, yes, I see that in your profile. More Viagra ads for you.

 

[Josh66]

Lawyers and many of the people I do business with have words at the bottom indicating the confidentiality of the email and if you have received it by mistake, erase it immediately etc.

Nevertheless, they seem to have made no effort to truly privatize and secure their email practices. Considering that America On-Line and Yahoo have been hacked, that may be concerning to some people particulary since a third company was hacked for the Yahoo info. THE QUESTION is why did a third company have Yahoo information that belonged to Yahoo customers? Bulk warrants for email from private courts for the FBI and other organizations have also made email even more public.

So, basic question: Do you consider your e-mail to be public and post accordingly or do you make efforts to ensure that your email is private and secure?

I should point out that there are ways of ensuring that your email is private and secure.

Honestly, the most shocking thing in this post to me is that AOL still apparently exists.

Most of the people I work with have those disclaimers too. I guess "disclaimer" is the wrong word... What do you call that? A warning?

And yet they still drop their business card into every "raffle" bucket they see. (Which, sometimes, are nothing more than a way for someone to collect a bunch of email addresses from a specific set of people to be later used for "spear phishing".)

Me, mine is all public. Well, I don't "advertise" it, but I don't make any attempt to hide it either. [edit - if we're talking about social networking sites too - Facebook, friends only, since I ***** about work sometimes. Google+, all public (but I try to be careful what I post, lol). LinkedIn, I rarely use - I have a profile but only look at it like once a month...]

I always assume that people can see my email address though, or that if I use it to register for something, that it will be shared/sold.

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At least Google's spam filters seem to be pretty accurate. It does a pretty good job of filtering out the crap from what I really want to see. I've never had to check the Spam folder for an important email that I missed, and I don't get junk mail in my inbox. So, whatever they're doing, it works.

 

[skieur]

I live a very boring life so no need.

I see, so you have few assets, no investments, no medical conditions, no insurance problems, no tax complaints or registered appeals, no on-going legal affairs, no business issues with clients or competitors, no problems with sloppy, incompetent renovation contractors, no sons or daughters with separation agreements or pending divorces, no stressed-out family members, no incompetent nursing homes looking after relatives etc. etc.


Lucky you!

 

[EIngerson]

I absolutely DO NOT associate my personal email to anything online. I have a couple backup email accounts that I made specifically for logging on to forums. If someone wants to hack those and see all the spam in it go ahead. Have at it.

 

[skieur]

Lawyers and many of the people I do business with have words at the bottom indicating the confidentiality of the email and if you have received it by mistake, erase it immediately etc.

Nevertheless, they seem to have made no effort to truly privatize and secure their email practices. Considering that America On-Line and Yahoo have been hacked, that may be concerning to some people particulary since a third company was hacked for the Yahoo info. THE QUESTION is why did a third company have Yahoo information that belonged to Yahoo customers? Bulk warrants for email from private courts for the FBI and other organizations have also made email even more public.

So, basic question: Do you consider your e-mail to be public and post accordingly or do you make efforts to ensure that your email is private and secure?

I should point out that there are ways of ensuring that your email is private and secure.

Honestly, the most shocking thing in this post to me is that AOL still apparently exists.

Especially, if you have read some of the hacked AOL info. that is on the web.

Most of the people I work with have those disclaimers too. I guess "disclaimer" is the wrong word... What do you call that? A warning?

And yet they still drop their business card into every "raffle" bucket they see. (Which, sometimes, are nothing more than a way for someone to collect a bunch of email addresses from a specific set of people to be later used for "spear phishing".)

Me, mine is all public. Well, I don't "advertise" it, but I don't make any attempt to hide it either.

For a professional photographer, the best compromise is to keep your business public on the net, but your name private to those that you do business with.

I always assume that people can see my email address though, or that if I use it to register for something, that it will be shared/sold.

Internet security specialists say that there is no reason whatsoever to use an email address that directly indicates your name.

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At least Google's spam filters seem to be pretty accurate. It does a pretty good job of filtering out the crap from what I really want to see. I've never had to check the Spam folder for an important email that I missed, and I don't get junk mail in my inbox. So, whatever they're doing, it works.

Google however shares its info. with the government every 3 months and with third parties.

The best email service is:

1. outside the North American continent, not in England, and not subject to US snooping.
2. does not record your ISP number and location
3. does not record content or searches or uses top grade encryption

 

[Josh66]

Internet security specialists say that there is no reason whatsoever to use an email address that directly indicates your name.

I agree, and mine doesn't. My personal one anyway. At work, it follows the typical "FirstName.MiddleInitial.LastName@Company.com"...

 

[skieur]

I absolutely DO NOT associate my personal email to anything online. I have a couple backup email accounts that I made specifically for logging on to forums. If someone wants to hack those and see all the spam in it go ahead. Have at it.

That is a good starting point. I hope you have not intentionally or not, linked your real name to your usernames in accounts or used the same username in all accounts.

 

[Josh66]

They sent these out at work a while ago. (They may be slightly dated)

Social Networking "Smart Cards"... (It's mostly common-sense type stuff.)

Facebook:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7FnNzrIGSXSVWI2Y211RE5IZ0U/edit?usp=sharing

Google+:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7FnNzrIGSXSeGRWNGltZFAwQzA/edit?usp=sharing

 

[runnah]

I see, so you have few assets, no investments, no medical conditions, no insurance problems, no tax complaints or registered appeals, no on-going legal affairs, no business issues with clients or competitors, no problems with sloppy, incompetent renovation contractors, no sons or daughters with separation agreements or pending divorces, no stressed-out family members, no incompetent nursing homes looking after relatives etc. etc. Lucky you!

Lol actually that is a 100% accurate.

 

[EIngerson]

I absolutely DO NOT associate my personal email to anything online. I have a couple backup email accounts that I made specifically for logging on to forums. If someone wants to hack those and see all the spam in it go ahead. Have at it.

That is a good starting point. I hope you have not intentionally or not, linked your real name to your usernames in accounts or used the same username in all accounts.

That's where a ton of people get overly concerned about the wrong thing. It's already too late. If you own a car, house, have credit, or have ever been to the DMV …...etc. your information is already out there. It's out of your control. Sure, you can add some layers to sift through for someone looking for your info, but it's there and available for anyone that wants it no matter how awesome your password is.

 

[skieur]

I absolutely DO NOT associate my personal email to anything online. I have a couple backup email accounts that I made specifically for logging on to forums. If someone wants to hack those and see all the spam in it go ahead. Have at it.

That is a good starting point. I hope you have not intentionally or not, linked your real name to your usernames in accounts or used the same username in all accounts.

That's where a ton of people get overly concerned about the wrong thing. It's already too late. If you own a car, house, have credit, or have ever been to the DMV …...etc. your information is already out there. It's out of your control. Sure, you can add some layers to sift through for someone looking for your info, but it's there and available for anyone that wants it no matter how awesome your password is.

Actually any of the information you mention may be out there but most of it is incomplete and not up-to-date. My bank is in one city but I live 2 hours away in a village. My credit is in another location. Having a common name can also help create confusion. Even the police have contacted me related to my name but not me. My DMV is blank of any infractions or accidents and changes in employment are not up-to-date either.

The challenge for the individual who wants to retain their privacy is to isolate any of the personal info. that is out there. Passwords can be managed and computer generated and a different one for every use. E-mail can be masked and encrypted. If you shop on the Internet you can even mask your credit card info. when making purchases. Use several usernames and ensure that they cannot be linked to your real name. Don't fill out forms with info. that no company or no site needs to know.

Your name and address has limited value to some advertisers, organizations, etc. but if they can start putting a profile together on age (filled out for some site registrations), assets, politics, family info., medical issues, etc. then all the info. becomes much more useful.

If you are all over the Internet with your real name and the same username of all forums, then web tracking bugs, cookies, etc. can constantly track you and follow you with advertising and scams. On the other hand, if you don't use your real name on the net at all and use different usernames with slightly different "identities" then it becomes difficult if not impossible to LINK apparent personal info. together and relate it to ONE person.