[pchelpers] Re: Mailing mpg files

Scott why do I feel like you finally answered my question about people
getting your e-mail on its way to someone else?



>
> Hi Ed,
>
> Friday, July 23, 2004, 9:47:01 AM, you wrote:
>
> E> Emailing is no less public as it can be intercepted.
>
> Intercepted how? By the various ISPs in the path, certainly, and
> possibly by people in the same subnet on your connection or the
> recipient's connection (if on cable, don't think it applies for dialup
> or DSL), but the legality varies, and the chances are that anyone
> doing it is a professional.
>
> With web sites, any script kiddie can search for hidden pages, and if
> you don't hide it well enough, it's not really hidden anyway.
>
> If you're running your own server, probably the best way to hide the
> entire site is to put it on an unusual port, instead of the default
> 80.
>
> If you or the recipient is on a corporate system, privacy should be
> considered non-existent.
>
> You could use encryption to make privacy virtually certain, and also
> give the files uninteresting names like 01A972F2C.DAT.
>
> --Scott.

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