Sunday, September 30, 2007

Electronic snooping

I do not have anything to hide from the world, at least nothing that is worth hiding. But I do not like when people open my letters to read them. Nor do I like email service providers reading my mail. I prefer to keep my non secrets secret. So when one day I sent myself a text page with encryption, MSN Hotmail guys launched my mail login page again instead of sending the mail. I had to login again before I could send the mail. This was repeated on two more days. Since they give free email service, I could not complain. But I decided to fool them. I wrote the following subjects on 4 of my successive mails to my different email account. MSN wonderful MSN hotwheels Bright MSN guys MSN bright All of these 4 mails were sent first shot by Hotmail guys. Then I sent one with the subject "MSN Virus". Immediately they launched a page asking me to enter assorted letters and numbers they had printed there into a text box for confirmation that it was not a spammer trying to send mail in my name (or so they claimed). I entered those, and then they sent my mail.The email server at my son's college returns emails as policy violation if the subject contains one of the words that they have put in the list of objectionable words, e.g. download, virus, love, update, news etc.Henceforth I will send my emails with a wonderful but benign subject, and attache the message as a coded text file.

प्रशंसा करायचीय, नावे ठेवायचीयेत, काही विचारायचय, किंवा करायला आणखी चांगले काही सुचत नाहीये, तर क्लिक करा.

संपर्क