EVE General Discussion

Just give the kraken what it wants. You sold your privacy the moment you signed up for gmail anyway.

Any one you pay for.

I'd rather pay $10 a year for some privacy than hand over every little bit of my life to a "free" service.

Mr Epeen

I heard that there was a way around this a while back by going through the accessibility options, I don't know if this is still possible.

Outlook (Microsoft) doesn't require this information as far as I'm aware, it will ask for it but you can decline to, or provide false info.

I don't think I can access any options at all because the confirmation message asking for a phone number pops up right after typing password. No access to menus etc.

Last time I checked Outlook asked for a phone number to create an account and I couldn't skip it (red letters pop - "information is necessary") so I didn't make any account.

Free doesn't exist, when you use free you are "selling" your email content.

Anyway I am 90% sure that password or phone number is a choice in settings. Of course you will have to enter your phone to change that setting :/

I use GoDaddy, I pay a few dollars a year extra for a domain name and that way my email doesn't have to change just because I changed providers.

The best option is to just setup your own mailserver on your custom built gateway router which you created because you did not wanted a stock router full of spyware.

Thanks I'll check that too. If I can't skip the confirmation message asking for a phone number then I'm worried that if for some reason in the future CCP asks to verify my account I will be screwed because no more access to my "Eve address".

E: Now that I think about it I can't log into the Steam website anymore because they always ask me for a verification code sent to my other Gmail account, which I can't access either. LOL

PS

wrong topic

Private email server. Control everything: allowed interfaces, spam filtering, and notifications.

May require some sysadmin skills.

I don't have a list of email that don't use a telephone number but I think I have a few email addresses that don't use telephone numbers.

The only problem is to verify the email account system in question to make sure that they don't.
I would also be able to update a list of email systems that require an email.

The suggestion to run one's own email server is good, if that is related to something different than an ISP that is.
I know I can run my own Dedicated IP and run a server from it, but that one single company and affiliate in Hong Kong have restrictions on what can be done with the server, in extension, who can use it and how.
They don't allow others to access controls although it's possible to setup a security routine like a password (or even cell phone SMS code and input system, yes) for data transfer, depending on the format.
It's possible to setup an email account for someone that way, however, I would not recommend it.


I would have to verify what it is to know for sure what it was about, or to analyse the system if I don't know what it is .
Sometimes data gathering can be useless if it's designed to be that way.


On another note:
GMail is not as secure as they can, since they delete messages over the 5 GB limit or so without warning.
It's a good idea to backup your data (/email messages and file attachments) and not rely on the concept of privacy offered by others when they can just turn around and be traiterous about security of information, or disloyal about keeping safe or in ways to jeopardize one's security or public safety.

I copyright the data and information which I create and that I am the author of, some of which include email, and I may have to copyright it, in as much as I may have to copyright programs I design with descriptions, and those that I program, or risk more potential of forfeiture if not registered.
Fixed Copyright isn't registered and as such, is much harder to protect, and if the crown seek forfeiture of it for whatever reasons they may want to argue about , whether legal or not, it becomes much more complicated to protect if the whole creation work doesn't have to be redone, if someone else is not using it without your authorization.

I disagree that Gmail gets all rights to data when offering a service, but that would be or should be ground for litigation.
That is nothing that would make a good contract or a valid and sound agreement between 2 valid parties.
They do however have rights and responsibility, and one of those is to not be obligated for someone's illegal use of data, and a second is to protect users against violation of the security of that data.

And yes, this also includes public and civic safety to a certain extent, and no more than necessary.
There are also other rights from it, and the way those rights are attributed also are subject to security review and analysis, in a good way, not in unfair ways, or just to make one party seem damaged when in fact one is trying to help them, despite communication warfare which may be administered by parties without the authorization for it.

Email was designed to work in case of nuclear warfare, and the designers were attacked and their email systems made to fail.
They were then forced to use analog and alternate systems to compensate for the damage and incapacity to communicate to solve the problem and regain control of that system's security.