Re: Web mail intercepted! How?

From: McLain Causey (mclaincausey_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/04/05

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To: Mark Owen <mr.markowen@gmail.com>

    On Aug 4, 2005, at 10:27 AM, Mark Owen wrote:
    > For that
    > matter, anything sent out on the Internet unencrypted should already
    > be considered public.

    That's really all there is to say about it. I think most services
    use SSL in the authentication phase only, if at all. With Yahoo!,
    it's optional (and not the default) even then. It's trivial to read
    webmail in such a situation.

    You need GPG or some other encryption scheme if you want another
    layer of confidentiality.

    Regards,
    Mac

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