Re: 60 Minutes says that "E-Mail is not private."

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From: Jamie
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:00

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dionisio@infinet.com () wrote:
>Jamie (jamie@multiverse.com) said:
>
>}The total time on-disk at site A would be about a second.
>
>One slight problem. There are "recovery experts" that can snatch the bits 
>off of a disk, even if it's been formatted and each bit individually 
>re-written over 10 times.

If a bit on a disk has been overwritten, it's gone man.  Ain't no comin'
back from the dead :-)

As far as packets and 'sniffing' is concerned.. Well, on 100MB FDDI I see
about 500 packets a second.  Sniffing packets for email, decrypting and
then showing them in plain-text.. I dont have the time for.

You can assume for all intents and purposes that if you send e-mail from
one site to another, it's pretty private.  Want more? use PGP.

-- 
Jamie Rishaw [jamie@in-addr.arpa.com] - Senior Network Admin, Multiverse Inc.
rdm: "Religion is obsolete."   gsr: "By what?"  jgr: "Solaris."
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Subject: Re: 60 Minutes says that "E-Mail is not private."
Date: 1996/06/20
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