Because people generally understand the concept that Wifi is open,--- "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am struck the contrast between the seemingly > strong demand for wifi security, compared to the almost complete > absence of demand for email security. > > Why is it so?
and that that's risky for them because people can get on their networks,
and scary cryptographers from Berkeley go announcing that the security's cracked,
and scary hackers from Berkeley go war-driving and publish about it,
and other people follow it up with the scary war-chalking conspiracy,
and columnists write scare stories about drive-by-spamming,
and to the extent that anybody has corporate security practices,
this obviously sounds scary to them (unless they're clueful people
who understand to put the Wifi outside the firewall,
but most companies not only have fewer clues, they have less control
over their users, and people might just plug these things in
because it's easy, convenient, and off-the-shelf.)
Email security, on the other hand, may inspire some people
to do encryption, but most people outside the financial biz
aren't really worried about wiretappers, and their big security concern
with email isn't eavesdroppers, it's either insiders mailing things
to people who shouldn't have them (hard problem to solve),
or spammers mailing things in to them that they don't want.
