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Re: Friday Hosing

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ryangard@gmail.com)
Sun Jul 14 19:20:13 2013

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From: ryangard@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:19:49 +0000
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To add to that, I think the interesting point was brought up earlier anyways -- this doesn't stop midstream intercepts from catching traffic in transmission. You can have a secure endpoint, but if the email has to traverse, it's open to being sniffed.
------Original Message------
From: Patrick W. Gilmore
To: NANOG list
Subject: Re: Friday Hosing
Sent: Jul 14, 2013 6:22 PM

On Jul 12, 2013, at 19:22 , Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com> wrote:

> Set up your own email server, host your own web pages, maintain your own
> cloud, breath your own oxygen FTW.

That's simply not realistic for many companies and essentially all people (to a first approximation).

-- 
TTFN,
patrick



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