Kieran Senior

• Published:March 9th, 2008
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I recently found an article over at Coding Horror describing some shareware which was not being entirely ethical with its approach to achieving a certain task.  Sure enough I own a GMail account and use it for all of my e-mails, and personally I have been thinking about switching to offline mail for general security reasons.  In order to do this you would have to use an application to migrate your e-mails out from the mailbox and then import them into your client-side application.

Typically we trust software that we get from the Internet.  Someone put a lot of time and effort into making it, and it does what it says on the tin, right?  Wrong.  I myself have my hand in the software development jar and personally know many software developers.  Most of them are ethical in what they do but not all software is made secure (I’m sure if you do a search for Microsoft you’ll find many complaints in many blogs).

Should we trust software?  After that little post I’m not so certain.