The Internet Is an Open Book - Protect Yourself with Secure Protocols
Source: OS Opinion
Entering a password into an e-mail program does not mean that e-mail is secure when traveling through the Internet.
In this age of viruses, hacking, terrorism and paranoia, people are becoming more and more interested in finding ways to protect themselves and keep their data private on the Internet and elsewhere. The unfortunate thing is that few people are aware that they are passing their personal information back and forth over the Internet in the clear for anyone to intercept.
Securing your network activity is not difficult, but it does require an awareness of how certain protocols work. This article will attempt to address these protocols and situations and suggest ways of adding security.
The tools and protocols discussed in this article all have one thing in common: they all send data over the Internet in plain text. What this means is, when the data is leaving one user's computer on the way to another computer, it's not encoded in any way.
