[SGVLUG] LA City councilman notes issues with Google email security

[Dan Kegel]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Christopher Smith <cbsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Braddock Gaskill
> <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be enough of a security issue that Google reads all your mail
>> and provides feedback to advertisers, even if in aggregate?
>
> Google reads mail in the same way that anti-spam software reads mail.
> The commercial versions of Google Apps for Domains doesn't do
> advertising, so there is no feedback to advertisers. Either way, the
> existing system they have has got such a ridiculous security exposure
> that almost any solution would be an improvement.

Full disclosure: both Chris and I used to work at google.
- Dan