KEEPING IT PRIVATE
The Wall Street Journal has had a couple of articles regarding email and IM privacy in recent past (i.e., in light of recent scandals):
Those IMs Aren't as Private as You Think [Oct. 4, 2006] [via Lifehacker]
Those IMs Aren't as Private as You Think [Oct. 4, 2006] [via Lifehacker]
Google Inc.'s Google Talk instant-messaging service automatically saves the chat sessions of users that have signed in with Gmail email accounts. Users of Google Talk can disable the setting or choose to go "off the record" during a particular session if they want to avoid having it saved. Other instant-messaging services, such as AOL's AIM, Yahoo Inc.'s Yahoo Messenger, and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live Messenger, don't store conversations on their servers automatically.This Email Will Self-Destruct [Aug. 31, 2006]
Amid heightened privacy concerns, a handful of technology companies are touting new services designed to make existing email programs, such as Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook, more secure, with features ranging from emails that can't be forwarded to self-destructing messages that can be viewed only for a limited time.I went through a Trillian phase. Although it offers interoperability, the real bells and whistles do not generally function across platforms. So I switched back. On the email front I've heard anecdotally from somone who would be in the know, that Hushmail is worth checking out.
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