On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:11:22 -0700, Fred Jones wrote:

>Thanks everyone for the great replies. Tom's reply about the over-the-air 
>part of the transmission is what is still confusing me. How can the 
>over-the-air part of the communication be protected using only SSL login on 
>email without a VPN or other encruption? 

What the people are sayig, is that as long as you have that <https:>
connection (pad lock closed somewhere in your browser), you're golden.
(I guess) Depending on your email provider, it'll either be secure just
for login (seems like a crappy way to do things), or secure for the
whole session.

My HIS account is secure throughout. I notice that GMail is not.
Neither is Yahoo or Netzero.

As usual: YMMV

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