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Posted by Alex Moreau on May 28, 2006, 10:46 pm
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> 4ax.com:
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>>>Just about everyone nowadays cacn set up somewhere a password protected
>>>FTP site.
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>> FTP is about as insecure as email....
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> But, I forgot to say, you can then remove the file as soon as it has been
> transmitted. And/or, in my case, at the university they assign a password
> that's pretty strong for ftp access.
>
> Nevertheless, I would not send my quicken files in any electronic way
> other
> than via physical transfer, e.g. on a CD sent by mail. I also have to
> admit that PGP looked good to me, but I've never really investigated it,
> because I can't quite figure out how the password thingy works there. I
> haven't really tried to figure it out either.
>
> On the other subject, when someone would ask to have a real email address
> for me, I would give it out to that person, or when there would be more
> than one person I would spell it out, like blood club at verizon dot you
> figure out what
Your best suggestion was the CD via snail mail or, barring that, hand
carried. Anything else for sensitive data is asking for trouble.
ALex
> --
> Best regards
> Han
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