These tips are very good solid advice and drive home why email communications should still be treated as a post card that is publically readable. What it does not say is that as a result of gmail using single sign on cridentials (your gmail username and password) you need to take the same precautions on every platform that uses them. Friend feed for example ;) - Dick

Yes. I use different credentials for FF. (Am I missing a point here?) Seb - Seb Schmoller from email

Perhaps, Google allows you to use its gmail username and password for multiple applications (google docs, lattiude, web monitoring etc so you need to take precautions not to get scamed on all these applications as well as just gmail. In addition the gmail credentials (UN/PW) are used by multiple other applications as its an OpenID account so you might expect to use it for all sorts of services (Friend feed being one) The risk here is that these other services can snag your ID (UN/PW)and then use it to take control of your email etc - Dick Moore