[876] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Software Sales via e-mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Fri Jun 28 03:05:28 1991
To: SEAN@dranet.dra.com (Sean Donelan)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, jrr@concert.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 27 Jun 91 14:05:16 -0500.
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 91 03:03:36 EDT
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com>
> our stuff is highly valuable, confidental, trade secrets...
lucky you :-)
> assume that when something was sent through the Internet it would be
> considered "made public"
If unencrypted, yes, that's a reasonable fear. You don't know where all
there are line monitors which could accidentally show the text of your
most secret valuable algorithm right on some noc operator's screen.
This state may change if and when privacy enhanced mail is widely
deployed and perceived to be useful and secure; i'm not holding my
breath, but it should be about the same time that ISDN is widely
available, so there might be more 'private' bandwidth available as
well as secure messaging.
--Ed
or i might be wrong. wouldn't be the first time.
