I would like to know if everything I do on my home computer can be retrieved by someone with intermediate computer knowledge (including the actual content of my emails - or is retrieving the content of emails a specialist role?
2006-09-26 03:14:52 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Thank you for responding to my question but I'm as confused as ever as some of you say yes and some of you say no. How do the police track back terrorists emails?
2006-09-26 03:29:14 · update #1
im into computers big time, your emails ARE NOT stored on hard drive if using an internet based acount like you are, they are stored on a server somewhere, if someone knew you address then they might be able to hack into it but they would need to be really good to do it, if you want to ensure privacy get a program called "windows washer" it will get rid of history, recent files, even the drop down menu you get when typing an address/
2006-09-26 11:38:05 · answer #1 · answered by darren p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your emails are not recorded on your HDD. When a law enforcement agency wants to obtain your emails, they have to get a court order to have the tapes pulled from Yahoo or Hotmail.
Many people are caught off guard and when the police raid their office of home with a valid search warrant they still have emails on their pc that they did not delete. Or they saved them to a file.
This can be read.
Clinical Psychiatrist, France
2006-09-26 10:46:20 · answer #2 · answered by MINDDOCTOR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are using outlook or something similiar. Yes they can because in order to store e-mail in you computer it has to go to hard drive.
If you do not want that to happen used the web-mail version which looks just like outlook and it does not get store in your hard drive unless you download an attachment.
2006-09-26 11:01:39 · answer #3 · answered by PC DOCTOR 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo emails are not recorded on your hard drive unless you copy paste and save as a document.
2006-09-26 10:17:24 · answer #4 · answered by Munster 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it can be done by searching your hard drive etc., I use Window Washer, by Webroot, and you can set it to military specs for deleting your computer history. It works great!
2006-09-26 10:20:09 · answer #5 · answered by jay611j 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No they arent. Yahoo mail is a web based mail server. The mails are stored there!
2006-09-26 10:19:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can shred files so they can't be re-read by using a variety of pieces of software..try Simple File Shredder...see the link
2006-09-26 10:17:24 · answer #7 · answered by Pretorian 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes
2006-09-26 10:25:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No not with yahoo.
2006-09-26 10:25:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋