<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Jeff Jensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjensen@apache.org">jjensen@apache.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Of course, but Myth voluteers aren't snooping on my stuff (well, that I'm aware of anyways ;-).<br></blockquote><div><br>Since it doesn't need to send data over the network there isn't much to worry about. If you're paranoid enough you can check the source for backdoors and compile yourself (if you're that paranoid you shouldn't trust a binary from someone else).<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/15/124230/Google-Engineer-Spied-On-Teen-Users" target="_blank">http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/15/124230/Google-Engineer-Spied-On-Teen-Users</a></blockquote><div><br>But this could happen with any company or individual who has access to your network transmissions, including your ISP. Microsoft can read your hotmail account, Skype can listen in on your calls, etc. Your ISP actually has the best access to your online presense. Personally I don't think there is much reason to single out Google.<br>
<br>As for Google doing statistical analysis on email in order to present ads, I don't see how that is any different to ISPs doing statistical analysis on email in order to determine if it's spam.<br><br>Cheers,<br>
Steve<br></div></div>