<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Ramnarayan.K <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com">ramnarayan.k@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 2010/4/24 Mallikarjun <<a href="mailto:mallik.v.arjun@gmail.com">mallik.v.arjun@gmail.com</a>>:<br> <div class="im">>> On second thoughts had some more questions<br> >> 1. What will google do with the mobile phone numbers (general question)<br> ><br> ><br> > I don't think this question is valid. Bcoz, Google has way more valuable<br> > information than your mobile number, like all your chats, e-mails, browsing<br> > habits, and much more. I think you should be concerned about them rather<br> > than mobile numbers. Maximum one can do with mobile number is sell to<br> > spammers.<br> <br> </div>true, i agree fully<br> <br> however its not like if a phone number appears in an email google can<br> just take it, in this case we are legally giving it to them.<br> <div><br></div></blockquote><div><br>Yea, but I still I dont think it is of much use for them...<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> </div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"> >><br> >> 2. Won't the folks cracking an account also start by changing the<br> >> recovery information,<br> ><br> > Mostly one can crack into your E-mail system via recovery options, unless<br> > you have obvious passwords like "password123".<br> > Once they crack into, you can do very little if cracker changes password...<br> > but they wont do that. They want to spy what you do.<br> ><br> > My answer is "It depends on the cracker".<br> <br> </div>so no really safe options, if i look at what all is in my gmall<br> already its quite easy for a cracker to just unplug me and become me,<br> absolutely scary, in fact i think i am going to start deleting mails<br> and reducing the size of my gmail account. Keep stuff offline<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>This topic is going of-topic I guesssssss...<br><br>Even I get scared quiet often, the only option left is to buy a domain just for E-mail purpose...<br> I have a small do's to avoid scare form crackers, but if Google goes down over night :P, we are virtually dead literally. <br><br>1) Keep passwords irrelevant to our personal Information<br>2) Be cautious about what you share on Social networking sites<br> 3) Don't use <b>remember password</b> option for banking and important websites like E-mails systems<br>4) Install Noscript addon on Firefox<br>5) Use latest browsers and update regularly<br>6) <b>Use your brains and Common sense...</b> <br> <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="h5"> ram<br> <br> --<br> ubuntu-in mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>