Author: William Penn
Date: 06:29:35 12/12/05
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On December 12, 2005 at 09:17:45, William Penn wrote: >On December 12, 2005 at 09:13:14, Norm Pollock wrote: > >>Does your email account have to be of the "pop" variety or can I use an internet >>email account such as the free type on yahoo.com? Will that email account >>accomodate a 5mb attachment? > >Most email services of which I'm aware will not accommodate a 4 MB attachment, >and some refuse to accept .exe file attachments even if zipped!? This is a >terrible way to try to deliver this software. Everything should be via a >download link from a website/webserver. >WP CAUTION: Don't email any personal or sensitive or financial information such as credit card numbers. Email is not secure. Any hacker in the universe can read it. From reading the Rybka website I'm not sure if the software author is aware of this security problem with ordinary email. It is possible to use secure email (SSL) but most people don't have it. Ordinary POP3/SMTP email is not secure! WP
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