If you use GMail there are a couple of settings you should be concerned about. Mail Forwarding and Delegation can get you into trouble if you aren't careful.
Forwarding allows you to have any e-mail sent to a GMail address resent to another. Delegation allows you to grant to another user the ability to read your GMail and send mail using it, but not chat or change most settings.
A new entry in the GMail Blog encourages you to review these settings because you may have forgotten that you set them in the past. For the next week, if you have made changes in these settings from the default, which leaves them both unset, you will see a warning at the top of the inbox:
I suspect that forgotten but legitimate settings isn't the real motivation for this warning. There have been many compromises of GMail accounts in the past in which users were tricked into making these settings so that 3rd parties could spy on the accounts. In one such case the personal GMail accounts of "...senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists" were compromised, but I know of regular people to whom this has happened as well.
So the warning from Google is a good one and take it to heart.
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