amungus
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America
clubs: | yeah see
it's all about the money. information has historically always had a price attached to it.
doesn't surprise me one bit that this could be going on... |
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Warez_Zealot
Rural land of the rising sun
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March 17th, @03:50PM
| said by amungus  :it's all about the money. information has historically always had a price attached to it. doesn't surprise me one bit that this could be going on... I forget now, why isn't it that emails aren't automatically encrypted? Sending un-encrypted emails is like sending a letter through the post which isn't in an envelope.. Everyone who handles the letter can read it before it's delivered..
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"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it." - Malcolm X |
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stunod2002
join:2003-11-07
Carol Stream, IL
| It cost $$ for the digital ID's.. Plus they have to be renewed every 12 months..
The things that gets me is that any company would not have the digital ID's for those employees that travel.. The cost seems very minimal..
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Navarre, FL | PGP????? |
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Warez_Zealot
Rural land of the rising sun
join:2006-04-19
japan
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said by stunod2002 :The things that gets me is that any company would not have the digital ID's for those employees that travel.. The cost seems very minimal.. Yeah, that's what I say.. If I was a Chinese company, I would be doing the same thing.. If you are stupid enough to sent important info through un-protected inet (non VPN), yet are smart enough to find out that Chinese companies are intercepting these emails, there is something seriously wrong imo...
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"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it." - Malcolm X |
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Anubis Prime
join:2001-06-01
Indianola, PA | reply to amungus
 Agreed, but some would say that money is only bad when it's in the hands of Capitalists. |
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nixen
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said by stunod2002 :It cost $$ for the digital ID's.. Plus they have to be renewed every 12 months.. Seriously?
Interesting, because I was able to set up an entire SMTP encryption infrastructure for my employer for free.
For starters, we use a private certificate authority that we manage. We generate our own server certificates. This allows AES256 encryption of SMTP traffic from remote employees and 128-bit encryption of their IMAP traffic, too. All for free (thank you OpenSSL).
We'd generate client S/MIME certificates, too, but with companies like Thawte around, why bother. With the free email certificates they furnish for free, you can send SMTP messages with encrypted message bodies that can be read by any other S/MIME capable mail client (and not have to worry about whether they have your CA's public key stored or not).
said by stunod2002 :The things that gets me is that any company would not have the digital ID's for those employees that travel.. The cost seems very minimal.. Free, unless you're looking the ability to verify your server certs outside of your user community. If your goal is simply to protect remote client connections, you don't need publicly verifiable certificates. Thus, you needn't incur the costs. |
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RideRed
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USA | reply to Anubis Prime
And those same people would be the first to be Capitalists if they had some money. |
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