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Lost Gmail Emails and the Future of Web Apps

Posted by Zonk on from the i-like-keeping-my-stuff-thanks dept.

brajesh writes "Recently some people lost all their Gmail emails and contacts. The problem seems to be contained and fixed, but this incident shows how far are we in terms of moving all communication online on services like Gmail for your domain(beta). Will it ever be possible to do away with desktop solutions like Outlook and Thunderbird? Given the nature of the internet, will it ever be possible to truly move to an 'online desktop'?"

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  1. It wasn't "lost," dammit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those users were victims of a deliberate cross-site scripting attack in Firefox 2.0. If this problem had involved Windows Live Mail and IE7, do you honestly think we'd be using terms like "lost" and dodging the real issue, which is browser security?

    1. Re:It wasn't "lost," dammit by F�an�ro · · Score: 5, Informative

      Where does it say that this was a cross-site-scripting attack? Also, at least one of the affected users claims to use IE.

  2. Back it up locally (link is google-cached) by dave-tx · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can use POP (google cache link, the original seems to be missing) to back up your Gmail mail....Anyone have a alternate method that they use?

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