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From: nanook@rwing.UUCP (Robert Dinse)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Passing proprietary messages through competitors or other sites
Summary: Sending Proprietary Data through competitors systems
Message-ID: <118@rwing.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jul 90 02:42:07 GMT
References: <11613@hoptoad.uucp>
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In article <11613@hoptoad.uucp>, gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> System administrators should strongly remind their users that info sent
> via ordinary Usenet or Internet mail is NOT private.  It can be disclosed
> at multiple locations along the way, either intentionally or by accident.
> On many sites it can be read by ordinary users while parked there in
> transit.  There are no guarantees of privacy here, folks.

     The way I've handled this is to agree verbally on a password then crypt
the message before sending it. Crypted data seems to make it through uucp ok
and I've not seen too many systems that lack crypt. I'm sure it's not 100%
secure, but it at least makes it difficult for ordinary users who weren't
previously employeed by the NSA to look at it.