Ralph Shumaker wrote:
No, the ones who do not need it still do not "need" it. Those who need it (and those who *will* need it) are the ones who need everyone else to use it (even though they do not "need" it).
The problem is that people often don't know that they need encryption until something bad happens. Recently I have been considering my use unencrypted wifi connections. My first thought is, why should I care if it is encrypted or not, all my truly important communications are covered by SSL or SSH. But then I realized that while my other traffic (surfing the web, for instance) might not be that critical to protect, I still would be somewhat annoyed if someone sniffed my browsing history. Of course, I don't really need the connection to be encrypted until someone sniffs it and tries to leverage that information.
-- Rick -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
