At the Google Gmail page today, there is bold announcement that effective today you (or any sysadmin or "governemt test case, State or Fed") can backdate ANY message for you, all the way back to April 2004 when Gmail began, and on to infinity...oh, only ten per year though so "time faith isn't lost".

 

This insane and pointless devisement may be proven by visiting currently at http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html.

 

Think of the possiblities in the hands of disruntled or paid-off or politically active email worker at Google: set "terror" made-up messages back to, near, or ahead of date (or make it LOOK that way), blackmail with this, the list goes on and on...and the archdiocese of Chicago thinks IT's got something with "Cracker save Polly, Polly do what crackerman say or Polly get no soul-saving cracker"!

 

For these reasons, I respectfully report my discovery of such issue and complain of it as against the public policy of tracking online terror and criminal activity generally.