Never Erase an Email Again

I heard recently that Yahoo is offering unlimited email storage. You need never erase an email again.

You talk like this is a good thing.

Considering the cops supena organizations like yahoo and google to take their records and use them in court, one can imagine the mountain of circumstantial evidence that could be amassed on almost anyone , to accuse them of almost anything. A good lawyer can turn a simple "you were in the same park at the same day at the same time as the crime happened" into a conviction. "he was the only one there ! By his own words he admits he saw no one else he was alone" ((david milguard got 11 years by this kind of reasoning until DNA testing showed him innocent))

And the cops are nothing. At least they have a set of rules they have to follow. Your employer doesn't. Log onto email at work once, your boss swipes your password (It's his computer at work , not yours ! He can monitor you perfectly legally ! ) and guess what ? He's in like flynn reading anything he wants, and if you want to keep your job then you stay quiet even if you find out about it.

This electronic age is a security dream if you're a cop. The average citizen , it's another matter.

My advice is that you're emails should be pretty paired down. "Meet you at my house at 5pm" or some such. You don't need your boss reading your girlfriends love letters, or some such do you ?

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And if you want to express yourself online, do what I do . Make up a fake name and start a blog under it. And becareful not to include anything that can trace you back to work , because you gotta know , sooner or later you're gonna show your blog to someone at work, and they're gonna read the whole thing, and "you said that about me ? In public ???" Let work issues lie until you're retired and it's too late for them to do anything.

:)