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Posted by Laura on May 28, 2006, 10:01 am
Please log in for more thread options Andy Levy wrote:
> On 5/27/2006 07:50, Han wrote:
>>
>>> Does password protection via quicken surive email transfer?
>>>
>>> If I have a file password protected on my Quicken and email all the
>>> necessary files to someone else, will the file open without a
>>> password?
>>>
>>> Just curious.
>> This will probably work, if the recipient has the password. However, it
>> still isn't advisable, IMHO. Emailing involves transfer from computer
>> one to a mail server, then transfer over who knows how many intermediary
>> servers to the recipient's ISP's mail server and then finally to the
>> recipient. I believe that ISP's are required to keep copies for some
>> time (but I'm not sure about that). Even if a copy doesn't get stored
>> for the Feds to look at, it is somewhere along the line that there is a
>> possibility of diverting a copy.
>
> It's very easy for anyone to pick off an email as it goes through the
> many servers en route to its destination.
>
>> Then to post about this using a real email address is just plain dumb
>> (IMHO).
>
> Debatable. I use a "throwaway" address - GMail's SPAM filters are
> really good, and it's not the address I use for my important
> communications. Encouraging people to not use an email address that's
> valid so they can be contacted off-newsgroup is about as dumb, IMHO.
Many people don't want people to contact them outside of the newsgroups so
not using a real e-mail address is acceptable to many people. If you *want*
people to contact you off-group then either include it in your sig or put it
in the reply-to field since this field is NOT available to the e-mail
harvest bots.
Some use a throw away e-mail address but if you are not going to ever check
that address then why use one and lead people to believe that they can
contact you outside of usenet.
>
>> Just about everyone nowadays cacn set up somewhere a password protected
>> FTP site. I don't know the details of how to do this for anyone, since I
>> can use my work site to do this, and thus have never had the need to find
>> out.
>
> FTP sends passwords in plain text. It's anything but "safe"
>
> Really, the best way to transmit files like this with such sensitive
> data is to *encrypt* them using a *strong* encryption method. Tools
> like PGP/GPG are great for this. TrueCrypt may also be able to do it
> (haven't gotten around to checking it out yet).
>
> Don't put anything in unencrypted email that you wouldn't put on the
> back of a postcard sent by USPS. Your protection level is about the same.
>
>> An alternatice is to burn the files to CD and use physical transport to
>> transfer the files (e.g. US mail).
>
>
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