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  • Oh right, if you save your passwords in the Google browser, or your Google phone… They might be stored in Google’s servers in some fashion - to allow you to share them between devices for example. But you do have to enable this functionality (assuming Google isn’t evil).

    Well outlook is a complicated one, your credentials absolutely need to be stored in a place your (pop/imap/…) mail server can read from. Else how can they be validated. So if that’s Microsoft, then technically they have your credentials.

    Any mail provider that isn’t evil, won’t be able to read your stored credentials until current one way encryption methods are no longer safe

    e: in the case of stored/shared browser passwords, I that’s two way encryption… That’s less safe, I recommend not doing so if you can handle the inconvenience.


  • If Google and Microsoft are reading all of the emails in gmail/o365 (they could), then half of your data is probably getting caught by the recipient, or quoted in their replies anyway. Along with your email address of course. It’s a losing battle.

    e: oh you’re worried about that. There will be a token that maintains the authentication, Google (probably) won’t have your Microsoft password - they don’t need to store it, or even use it ever. The technical term is SSO (single sign-on), if you want to delve into it.




  • Which is interesting in itself, what if AI by chance produces a likeness of you, unintentionally. Is there an AI that has a database of all of us to know that? I’m sure they’re trying, for whatever reason.

    Now, if you’re someone famous, like a pop star or president, chances are there are a lot more images of you in those databases, which could also skew the resulting images.

    So I guess, what we really need is some way to trust the image, otherwise … I really don’t know how this can be avoided, maybe a smarter entity does.