On Sat, 2023-09-02 at 13:10 -0400, John Levine wrote: > > It's like changing your password, it sort of made sense in the 1980s > when networks meant coax Ethernets and bored students could sniff > passwords, and now it's cargo cult security. These days the only > sniffable shared media left is passwordless wifi and even there as you > note, mail all goes through TLS tunnels. >
Mail in transit is mostly TLS transport these days, BUT mail in storage and idle state isn't always secured. I'm sure that most any of us could find a public s3 bucket with an mbox file on it if we cared to look. -Jim P.
