gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:01:07 -0500


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email privacy (was: Re: [PLUG] WEF email) 

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:25:58AM -0500, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> This always surprises me.  That people would assume their email is
> private when it travels through public networks unprotected.  Let's not
> be naive, shall we?  Assume your email is not private unless you do
> something special to protect it.

The mistake is assuming that email is like postal mail. It's not,
it's like a postcard. The security envelope you mail your checks to
PECO in is encryption.

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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