Being open does not make Slashdot easier to hack, because it's written in Perl and so even access to the source code does not make it possible for an attacker to understand what it's doing.

Are these the people who Google for "facebook login" and then proceed to assume that whatever they find is Facebook? The comments here are pure gold [readwriteweb.com].

I haven't RTFA but maybe Google includes Gmail, Youtube, Blogspot, etc?

Do you wonder why they keep locking your accounts and holding your money? You rolled over and took it the FIRST time and have done so since. You should've sued them the first time it happened.

Imbecile. Outside of the USA, the majority of email addresses end in a country-specific suffix.

1. It is clearly different from running your own email server. But it is also differrent from any email provider from which you POP your email and then store it locally. 2. No; but I am saying that if you use a premium account then you add to all those private data also now a provable address and other information. That's also true for any book that you buy at Amazon, but you typically do not leave 10 GB private data with Amazon. 3. If your first address was aj1990@xyz.edu and then 3 years later aj93@myhome.com and then changed again a couple of years, it might be fun working with those emails over the Gmail or any IMAP interface. Think also about your "sent" folder, not only other folders.

Maybe he's a sleeze. Maybe even criminally so. You have no evidence of this, however. And fortunately, I live in a society where you are presumed innocent.

It has been mentioned that he has been dragging wikileaks into this personal situation, for example using the wikileaks twitter feed to promote the idea that he is innocent and the US is running a smear campaign. I do not think he would be asked to step down, especially so publicly, if he had kept his personal life and wikileaks separate.

1) I use the common "business identifier@vanitydomain.com" trick to help identify who is selling my e-mail address. Gmail has plus-addressing, which works reasonably well, however it is imperfect. Some spammers know about plus-addressing, and strip the plus. Google Apps for Domains would work, except that you're pretty limited in the number of addresses you can use without paying exorbitant (for these purposes) fees.

2) Forwarding mail to Google destroys valuable header information. Redirecting mail can cause it to get blocked by the spam filter (sometimes so badly that it doesn't even make it into your spam folder.) So even keeping your own mail server and just bouncing everything up there isn't a viable solution.

3) Having Google pop mail from your server is probably the most workable technical solution, but then Google has your password. Also, there are size limitations, in case you happen to have large attachments that you need to preserve.

1) Privacy and possibility of identity theft. 2) 7.5 gigs is nothing for 20 years of email - unless you do not use attachments. If you upgrade, you also share your real name and credit card etc. with Google. 3) Your email address probably changed multiple times over those 20 years - do you want to change all emails in the sense that the email address needs to be changed?

WHY oh why on earth would you pay someone to do something that you can do for yourself for free?

A liberal estimate of my lifetime of e-mail is a little over half a gigabyte.

It's the modern equivalent of saving all your personal letters and other correspondence. What the heck is abnormal about that? In the old days you'd have a bundle of letters stored in the attic somewhere. But this doesn't result in heaps of paper or file cabinets full of it that get in your way, as it does for people with a genuine mental problem [wikipedia.org]