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Continuig the series about some undispensible things that have crept into our world, this is the second part. In the first part we saw how Instant messaging is virtually ruling our lives. In this part lets have a look down at how webmail and Portable storage devices make sour life easy as well a "controbvversila" one at the same time.

2. Web mail
Of the respondents to the Yankee Group survey, 50% said they use consumer e-mail applications for business purposes. The problem with consumer e-mail services such as those from Google, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo is that the users themselves don't realize how insecure their e-mail exchanges are because messages are transported over the Web and stored on the ISP's server as well as the e-mail provider's server. Without that awareness, many use no discretion about sending sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, passwords, confidential business data or trade secrets.