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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