The "insecure" nature of POP3 is that the passwords, and data, are
sent in cleartext. That means that if some ISP employee somewhere
happens to have a packet sniffer on at the exact time you check
your mail, he can grab your password. Chances are pretty unlikely.
But...
I suppose a really geeky person could write a transparent POP3
proxy, which would grab and log your whole data stream going to/from
port 110.
I'd be much more concerned about weaknesses in your POP3 daemon,
like buffer overruns, and silly passwords.
Ed
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Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com
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Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA
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