T&T: E-Mail Security While Cruising

[Jeffrey Siegel]

Beware...I appear to be in an argumentative mood this morning...
 

> ...but I think most 
> will understand the underlying problem of wanting to keep our 
> private communications ... private.

What makes you think that phone calls and mobile calls are any more
private than email?

Ignoring the political discussions of wire-tapping, etc., it isn't
that difficult to listen to other people's conversations with
some basic amateur radio electronics and a PC.  ...or a set
of alligator clips on the outside of a house.

If email has to go to someone working in an office that doesn't
allow personal email, they can easily get a gmail account and
keep all personal email separate.  The email can be viewed
in a web browser and doesn't have to be downloaded and stored
locally.

If you really need to encrypt email messages, there are many 
ways to do that - commercially and free.  I'm not sure that
there are all that many times when encryption is actually needed
though.

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Jeffrey Siegel
M/V aCappella
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Castine, Maine