How secure are attachments that you send through email?
31.October, 2008
specifically gmail and yahoo mail. can third parties read these attachments?
You hear a lot about how un-secure e-mail is, but the fact of the matter is no one is going to try and steal your e-mail unless they have a reason to think they can profit from it. Are you sending bank account numbers? Credit card numbers? Crooks and hackers have an effort-to-potential profit ratio they look at to determine if it's gong to be worth trying to get into someone's system, and I doubt your "secrets" are all that valuable to them. Maybe to you - but not to a thief.
If you're concerned, you can always encrypt the attachment. PGP offers an easy way to do this, and you can always password-protect a ZIP file if you want to go that route.
But like I said, unless you are routinely sending information that a crook can use to clean out your bank account or charge a lot of items on your credit card, I don't think you need to lose any sleep over this.
01.November, 2008 at 4:11 am
You hear a lot about how un-secure e-mail is, but the fact of the matter is no one is going to try and steal your e-mail unless they have a reason to think they can profit from it. Are you sending bank account numbers? Credit card numbers? Crooks and hackers have an effort-to-potential profit ratio they look at to determine if it's gong to be worth trying to get into someone's system, and I doubt your "secrets" are all that valuable to them. Maybe to you - but not to a thief.
If you're concerned, you can always encrypt the attachment. PGP offers an easy way to do this, and you can always password-protect a ZIP file if you want to go that route.
But like I said, unless you are routinely sending information that a crook can use to clean out your bank account or charge a lot of items on your credit card, I don't think you need to lose any sleep over this.
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