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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:25:58AM -0500, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> >
> > This was mentioned on /., by way of the presumed-privacy of email
>
> 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 problem is that we are sophisticated users... we KNOW that email
is not private. The typical email user is unaware about how email
works much less the nature of the networks that it travels over.
That will change - but slowly.
Eric
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