Comments on: Spying With GMail http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2004/05/03/spying-with-gmail/ The personal web site of Brendon J. Wilson, a software developer, technologist, and entrepreneur living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:11:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jeff k http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2004/05/03/spying-with-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-190 jeff k Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/?p=154#comment-190 That's a nice catch. If you know an email address or name of somebody at google then you could target an ad at them to get your flaw heard. For instance buy "Susan Wojciki" (I think that's the name of a high level google PM) and "sex" and "google" and make the ad read: "Susan, I see you're talking about sex again" or something along those lines. Of course you could just report it as a bug, but where's the fun in that? That’s a nice catch.
If you know an email address or name of somebody at google then you could target an ad at them to get your flaw heard.
For instance buy “Susan Wojciki” (I think that’s the name of a high level google PM) and “sex” and “google” and make the ad read: “Susan, I see you’re talking about sex again” or something along those lines.
Of course you could just report it as a bug, but where’s the fun in that?

]]> By: former gmail user http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2004/05/03/spying-with-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-191 former gmail user Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/?p=154#comment-191 Great article. Just a side note. I stopped using gmail because of the privacy issue but not because of the basic day to day emails I get and send but because of attchments. If you try to send an email through gmail with and .zip or .rar attachment that has password protection it will fail with a message stating something to the affect of "for protection and security reasons gmail does not allow the .exe to be sent" But if you remove the passord protect no problem. THEY PARSE EVERYTHING!!!!!! STAY AWAY. Think how much damage can be done with a resume. Great article.

Just a side note.
I stopped using gmail because of the privacy issue but not because of the basic day to day emails I get and send but because of attchments. If you try to send an email through gmail with and .zip or .rar attachment that has password protection it will fail with a message stating something to the affect of “for protection and security reasons gmail does not allow the .exe to be sent” But if you remove the passord protect no problem. THEY PARSE EVERYTHING!!!!!! STAY AWAY. Think how much damage can be done with a resume.

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