Privacy\Security of Your Emails...concern!

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2 total messages Started by Joshua Richards Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:13

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Author: Joshua Richards
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:13

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Hi Everyone,

Most if not all Internet users use email to communicate...I am very
apprehensive when it comes to sending email so I need to know that
my email Service is really secure and safe....

I've been reading about quite a number of email services but would like to
hear your valuable suggestion to find the most secure email.

Thanks,
Joshua













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Re: Privacy\Security of Your Emails...concern!

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Author: David Efflandt
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 03:25

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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Joshua Richards <Webmaster@grupocat.com> wrote:
> Most if not all Internet users use email to communicate...I am very
> apprehensive when it comes to sending email so I need to know that
> my email Service is really secure and safe....
> 
> I've been reading about quite a number of email services but would like to
> hear your valuable suggestion to find the most secure email.

There is an old saying, do not put anything in e-mail that you do not want
made public.  Mail goes out over the wire as plain text.  If you keep that
in mind, you will not have to worry.

If you want some sort of security you should encrypt it with something
like PGP (Pretty Good Privacy).  Although, you still have no control over
what the recipient does with it after they receive it.

One thing to be cautious of is usenet spam about mail services or a server
you run on your own computer.  One such poster had a yeah.net address that
was one of the first spam sites I added to my procmail filter.  I
wonder if their program harvests the addresses of anything sent
through it.

If you use any webmail make sure it uses https URL's while logged in
instead of http.  But I am partial to Unix shell accounts where you can
login with ssh (or Putty in Windows) from anywhere and set up your own
procmail filter to weed out what you don't want (like sdf.lonestar.org
alias freeshell.org).

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David Efflandt - All spam ignored
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