Kevin Brosius on Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:50:30 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] keysigning wednesday?


christophe barbé wrote:
> 

...

> So with DCA.net you have two solutions : Grab your mail in an insecure
> way (at least fetch it only when your are connected to your DCA link,
> which is not ever true with a laptop) or pay $5 per month for a shell
> account.
> 
> NOTE: Secure mail is especially important with cable-modem (ie. not
> ADSL) where you share the connexion with your neighborough and then
> where it is easy to see all passwords.
> 


Secure ... mail?  I keep seeing this concept mentioned by different
people, and keep wondering why this is important to them.  Are you using
this on an internal secure network?  It just seems like an exercise with
little benefit for mail which travels over public networks.

-- 
Kevin Brosius

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