On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 00:51, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:28, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > > > > > Another reason might be that some people might have privacy issues with > > their correspondence being stored on intermediate mail server they have > > no controll of. > > For such an issue encryption is a better solution. Agreed > Even going straight > from your system to the advertised MX record you don't really know how > many or which systems your message may pass through. If one looks at the envelope header, the mail actually hops around. > In addition if > some one wanted to eaves drop they could access one of the many routers > your message passes through and capture it that way. Without encryption > the message goes in plain text. Any expectation of privacy when sending > email should be corrected. There is none. I wish all users would start using Linux or at least thunderbird on windows. This way, communication can be encrypted using GPG. (I've tried to get outlook to use GPG,via a plugin, but all I ever managed is to crash outlook.) In the end, I installed Thunderbird and Enigmail on the "The One Whom Must Be Obeyed" -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz Neuromancer 20:16:46 up 25 min, 1 average: 0.22, 0.22, 0.19
