On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 03:05:04PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:10:02PM +1300, Matthew Sherborne wrote: > > > > The program runs off the floppy, requires a passphrase, and stores all user > > information in DES encrypted files on the floppy. It tries not to let > > anything get swapped or written to the host computer. > > DES? anyway.. > > > Nobody knows, nobody cares. > > yup > > > Perhaps someone should expose the truth of the general lack of email > > security to the media, and let them scare everybody! > > they would botch it. they have already tried scaring everyone about > virus/worm problems yet everyone still uses MS Outlook.
I think that has a lot to do with the fact that they don't explicitly say to run something else, or give a URI for a different mail client. A news story that said, "... your email is insecure ... run this to make it better http://debian.org/ :)", might get some people using non-outlook, esp if the URI was for a decent windoze email client instead of a whole new OS :) (I've never checked email from 'doze in my life, except by ssh, but I assume such a beast must exist...). -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
