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Post by ZandraJoi on Jan 21, 2024 9:55:07 GMT -5
When you put emails in Drafts, can the Bigwigs read them? Or only after you send? Sometimes when I’m doing some notes up, I’ll open up an email minus an address in the To & start jotting down ideas. Anybody know if those can be read? Anybody else use email Drafts for quick notes?
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Post by calamity on Jan 21, 2024 12:57:40 GMT -5
Yeah those can be read by someone from IT and whoever they show/authorize. They can simply log into your account and see everything you can see/save on your computer.
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Post by Steve on Jan 21, 2024 12:58:26 GMT -5
Virtually all emails of any kind can be read by a person with the right skills. If I want something to jot down ideas in, I'll use my Notepad++ and keep it on my computer until I'm ready to send an email. Edit: what calamity said may be true for work computers, it's not true from my personal one.
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Post by ZandraJoi on Jan 21, 2024 20:04:43 GMT -5
Yeah those can be read by someone from IT and whoever they show/authorize. They can simply log into your account and see everything you can see/save on your computer. Well that's a bummer then lol Virtually all emails of any kind can be read by a person with the right skills. If I want something to jot down ideas in, I'll use my Notepad++ and keep it on my computer until I'm ready to send an email. Edit: what calamity said may be true for work computers, it's not true from my personal one. So if it's a home computer, it'd be safe then?
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Post by Senkusha on Jan 22, 2024 8:28:09 GMT -5
If you're really paranoid about privacy, sticking to an old fashioned pen and paper would be your best route. If somebody wants to read what's on your computer screen, there are devices that can be bought that can read the radiation pouring off your monitor from nearby. And I won't even get into hacking into your WiFi and network to browse your computer from a remote location.
Depending on which software/application you're using, and how it's connecting to the Internet will determine what happens with the Drafts. If you're using something like GMail, then that's connected to the server and auto-saves every few seconds. That way, you can have access to your information from anywhere, including your drafts. If you're using something like Outlook or K9, that stores drafts to your local computer, meaning you can only access the drafts on the same device.
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Post by Steve on Jan 22, 2024 18:21:51 GMT -5
Virtually all emails of any kind can be read by a person with the right skills. If I want something to jot down ideas in, I'll use my Notepad++ and keep it on my computer until I'm ready to send an email. Edit: what calamity said may be true for work computers, it's not true from my personal one. So if it's a home computer, it'd be safe then? For the most part but it's absolutely essential that you have a good internet security program that will block attempts at taking over your computer and reading anything on it. i.e. A good firewall and antivirus program. I use Vipre Internet Security and Malwaybytes. Nothing gets through. If you're using something like GMail, then that's connected to the server and auto-saves every few seconds. That way, you can have access to your information from anywhere, including your drafts. The only problem with Gmail is that information about you is gleaned from your emails for ad-targeting, etc. The amount of information Google has on a person is staggering. The only email I've found so far that is truly secure is Proton Mail.
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Post by demonskeith on Jan 23, 2024 2:09:07 GMT -5
They can only read the drafts if they have login to your account or maybe some secret backend to the email system, but I doubt that last part. Though I wouldn't use drafts as a note taker, what if you hit send by accident?
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Post by Senkusha on Jan 23, 2024 7:57:57 GMT -5
So if it's a home computer, it'd be safe then? For the most part but it's absolutely essential that you have a good internet security program that will block attempts at taking over your computer and reading anything on it. i.e. A good firewall and antivirus program. I use Vipre Internet Security and Malwaybytes. Nothing gets through. If you're using something like GMail, then that's connected to the server and auto-saves every few seconds. That way, you can have access to your information from anywhere, including your drafts. The only problem with Gmail is that information about you is gleaned from your emails for ad-targeting, etc. The amount of information Google has on a person is staggering. The only email I've found so far that is truly secure is Proton Mail. That's true! Why do you think Chrome is getting rid of cookies by the end of the year. ( searchengineland.com/google-chrome-started-phasing-out-third-party-cookies-436244) I see this, as a more stealthy way to capture your data. The use of Cookies have to be announced, but this being built into the browser, well... kinda sneaky if you ask me. And who owns Chrome? Google!! (aka, Alphabet, INC)
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Post by ZandraJoi on Jan 25, 2024 20:33:20 GMT -5
Steve, Senkusha, demonskeith, Thank you for the great replies! It's in my Hotmail. Not sure if that is the same as Outlook. Some people say it's the same, others say it's not. I've had this hotmail account for 15 some years. As for accidentally sending, I don't fill in the TO. If I do, I put in one of my own. I used this tip a lot when we used to spend the night with my parents & I had a bunch of notes I'd be writing. I'd open up an email & then I could access it when I got home. Microsoft Word was never the same on the Desktop & Laptop. I have an old AOL account I use at times too for note taking.
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Post by Steve on Jan 28, 2024 10:24:20 GMT -5
Hotmail by Micro$oft is pretty safe to use. I have no idea what kind of information about you they glean from your emails (if anything) though.
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