Er, gmail fail. Responding to lbcoder. On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a difference between the ability of network providers (or, in > very few cases, compromised network equipment) to read parts of a > message and the ability of a local attacker with no such skills/access > to read everything. > > Lots of people leave their 2nd and 3rd story windows open, too, but > that doesn't mean front doors are extraneous and silly. > > 2009/6/2 Cédric Berger <[email protected]>: >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 15:06, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> You think that email is encrypted between different smtp servers? It >>> isn't. Email is blasted in plain text all around the world. This makes >>> gmail's use of encryption moot. The only way to safeguard your email >>> is to encrypt the message, i.e., write your message, encrypt it with >>> the recipient's public key, paste that into your email client, hit >>> send. Some email clients support this, but I don't know of ANYBODY who >>> uses that feature. >>>
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