Ron DuFresne wrote: > > This internal issue is perhaps the greater risk of sniffing one probably > faces in this area. And that does not have to be an issue of folks > reading e-mail externally. Sniffing is not the huge gotcha some believe > it to be really. For one thing, a person has to consider, how much e-mail > traffic is really encrypted, both internally and externally from most/many > corporations? SMTP does not itself employ encryption and is the way such > communication primarily traverese an internal site and leaves there > externally. Now, there are communications and corporate bits of
I think a big problem with giving external access to internal mail is that people tend to put more sensitive material in an internal email than an internet email. If the recipient is reading their internal mail across the internet, the information could be exposed more than the sender intended. There's apparently a case going on here (Australia) at the moment of an ISP charged with snooping and capturing customer traffic. Darryl Luff _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
