[mdlug] General questions on internet security

[Carl T. Miller]

Drew wrote:
>      One other thing I forgot to include: same questions about POP3
> and SMTP. Probably I would expect
> the mail itself to travel in the clear; and the password to be
> protected. (The built-in mail client of my
> Zaurus cannot be used with Gmail for this reason.) But what about the
> username?

Unless you're using secured versions of pop3 and smtp,
everything is traveling unencrypted.  That means anyone
with a sniffer can see what machine to connect to, the
username and password.

c