Another entry in the internet security hall of shame....

[Chris Kuethe]

On 8/26/05, Steven M. Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> ...
> If you don't trust your (or your correspondents') IM servers, it may be
> a different situation.  I haven't read Google's privacy policies for
> IM; if it's anything like gmail, they're using automated tools that
> look at your messages and add to your behavioral profile.  As Peter
> said, though, you can always run your own server or find one that you
> do trust.

Got a nice little surprise yesterday when I [ge]mailed someone, and
moments later gaim beeps at me. Checking gaim, I see that suddenly
these users had been added to my gaim/gtalk buddies list without my
intervention. Grrrrrr....

Anyway, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if somewhere down the
road a folder called "archived gtalk" shows up in gmail where you can
search through all your old conversations.

CK

-- 
GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?

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