On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, jdow wrote: > IMAP, after all, exposes user email to scrutiny on machines the > user does not control.
Now, be fair. SMTP has exactly the same weakness. What prevents the Earthlink SMTP servers from saving a copy of every message they process on your behalf? If you want your email to truly be secure and private, the ***ONLY*** way is to encrypt the body text. Anything else (e.g. privacy laws) is merely security theatre. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ ICQ#15735746 http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem is when people look at Yahoo, slashdot, or groklaw and jump from obvious and correct observations like "Oh my God, this place is teeming with utter morons" to incorrect conclusions like "there's nothing of value here". -- Al Petrofsky, in Y! SCOX -----------------------------------------------------------------------
