If our governments can intercept/inspect encrypted traffic (which I'm told they can) then other less trustworthy people(although depending on where you live, the government may fall into that category too) can as well.
Once data leaves your physical premises it really is in the hands of whoever has access to the various paths along the way to its destination. I don't think cleartext Telnet and email are a fair comparison. Those things were never advertised as secure. I'm talking about using a network that is supposed to be private/secure provided by a company that we are paying for this service. If we have to run vpn over the top of it then the provider isn't providing what you are paying for. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 14 May 2010 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hijacked Thread: All WAN over VPN? (Was: RE: Network/WAN question) On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:53 PM, James Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > However if you feel you have to run a vpn then I'd say get a better provider. I'd rather be safe than sorry. People used to think cleartext Telnet wasn't worth worrying about either. Or email. Or whatever. They've always been proved wrong in time. I don't want my employer to be the next statistic. Especially given that industrial espionage is increasing at an astronomical pace. All it would take is one guy working at the carrier getting paid off by the Chinese. (Or the CIA, if you're not US.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
