From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 6 14:01:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B0116A4DC for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 14:01:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0123843D8A for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 14:01:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j46E1Itt014275; Fri, 6 May 2005 16:01:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 85BAE61F1; Fri, 6 May 2005 16:01:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 16:01:18 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050506140118.GB77760@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20050506103934.10FA34BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050506103934.10FA34BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! Organization: Me, organized? X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner cc: Fafa Hafiz Krantz Subject: Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 14:01:20 -0000 --tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:39:34AM -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: >=20 > Hello. >=20 > I have a big problem. My privacy has been violated. > > I had no idea when I first started writing posts to the FreeBSD > mailinglist that it would be archived,=20 On the page where you subscribed to the list is a link to the archives. The existence of such a link implies that an archive is being kept. So you could have known there are archives. Subscribing to a list means that you give permission for your messages to be sent to all subscribers. Any one of those could save the messages, creating an archive. So posting to the list implies permission for archival. > let alone indexed by Google so that the world can spy on my words. Technically, e-mail can be easily copied on any server that it passes through. So in effect, anybody who has access to one of the mail servers that your messages pass through can read your mail.=20 Some countries have laws concerning confidentiality of mail, and some have enhanced these to include e-mail. Other governments routinely intercept and scan e-mail traffic (google for "Echelon"). Unless you explicitly encrypt it, you should treat e-mail as a letter in an open envelope instead of a private converstaion.=20 Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFCe3iuEnfvsMMhpyURAsf4AKCCIJp0Ggg4B2o6tnL5kAukAUldKQCY9dHq 4Wrt9Kzy8LXyCmDUhroxiQ== =zxUZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye--