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| "Secrets To Secure Email!" |
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Is there such a thing as "Secure Email"?We can break it down into two main parts.First, as any of you that have been online for awhile as I have, over eight years this month, youhave no doubt shared your email address withother people on the Internet.Every single time you send an email message toanyone, your email address is made available tothat person. Otherwise, how else can they replyto your email message?Unless, of course, you are a spammer using stealthemail software to hide your identity and real emailaddress and domain of origin of your messages.That is a whole different type of problem.And how many times have you been requested toenter your email address at a web site?Once you press submit, there is no way of reallyknowing who will end up with your email addressand how it is that they plan to use it.No matter what the web site's "Privacy Policy"might state, you can never be certain how theywill use your email address information.The fact that I have used the same email address forso many years and use it on my web site as a wayfor people to contact me, means that my addressexists on every Spam disk or CD that is currently forsale on the Internet.We are all vulnerable to this sort of abuse. But thereis indeed such a thing as "Secure Email".One of the best ways to control spam is to make useof the FREE email forwarding service known asSpam Gourmet.Visit this FREE service at:http://www.spamgourmet.com/With Spam Gourmet, after you save and confirm the emailaddress where you'd like to receive messages, you can give outself-destructing disposable email addresses whenever you wantas follows:someword.x.user@spamgourmet.comwhere someword is a word you haven't used before, x is the numberof email messages you want to receive at the address (up to 20),and user is your username.If you receive more than 20 emails to that address from the samesender, their email gets tossed into the trash automatically.This gives you a chance to establish real email contactsfrom people you want to correspond with and then transferthem to your real email address while eliminating all spam.But, having a "Secure Email Address" is just one aspectof secure email.The other part of "Secure Email" that is really importantis the ability to be able to send someone an email messagewithout the fear that what you have written in the messagewill be exposed to unauthorized people.For most of us, we could care less if what we write in an emailmessage manages to end up getting posted on a web site.For those of us wishing to conduct business online, thatmight turn out to be a blessing in the form of free advertising.But how many times have you been warned NEVER tosend your credit card number and expiration date to avendor via email?The reason for that warning is simple; email messages canbe read by anyone with access to a computer that is actingas a server.Since your email message, and that of everyone else, mustpass from one server to another to finally reach the intendedrecipient, that message can be intercepted at any of thoseservers through which it must pass.Your personal message to a loved one can become a publicdocument on the Internet thus exposing your inner mostfeelings and intimate thoughts.Emailing a co-worker about sensitive business informationcan fall into the hands of someone friendly with your competition.Those sales projections or notes on a new client could easilybe turned against you.That would be truly unfortunate since the technology alreadyexists for making your email messages secure.The best solution is that of email encryption.There are many email encryption options which are availableto the average Internet user and many of these options areFREE to use. Not bad for getting that James Bondish feeling.Perhaps the best of these options is a software programcalled Pretty Good Privacy, PGP. It is free to use and todistribute and has been around longer than I have beenon the Internet, since 1991."PGP® or Pretty Good Privacy® is a powerful cryptographicproduct family that enables people to securely exchangemessages, and to secure files, disk volumes and networkconnections with both privacy and strong authentication."PGP is Freeware.Download your FREE copy of this software at:http://www.pgpi.org/Another solution is the Secure Multipurpose Internet MailExtensions, S/MIME protocol, an industry standard supportedby almost all of the latest email programs and web browsers,including Microsoft and Netscape.S/MIME incorporates Digital Certificates, which authenticatethe identity of an emails sender and receiver, verify the integrityof a message and ensures the privacy of the content.It only takes a few minutes to get a Digital Certificate in orderto secure your email. However, it does cost $ 14.95 per year tomaintain the certificate. You can try it for 60 days FREE at:We managed to find several, completely "FREE Secure EmailServices", that we have compiled in a list via Auto-Responderat: mailto:secure_email@emailexchange.orgAnother excellent FREE source of Privacy info is The ElectronicPrivacy Information Center, EPIC. They offer an online guidethat shows users how to get PGP and other encryption programsas well as how to surf anonymously and dealing with cookies.The EPIC guide also shows users how to download PGP via email:You just send a request to mailto:ftp-request@netcom.comwith the Subject line "SEND mpj/getpgp.asc."You can access their FREE Resources at:http://www.epic.org/privacy ools.htmlMost of us can not see the need for secure email.But it is important to consider in this day and agewhere your email can be read by unintended peopleand it is certainly a cure for identity theft which canharm your peace of mind and also your pocket book. ABOUT THE AUTHOR A.T.Rendon is an entrepreneur and published writer.Subscribe to FREE Business Classifieds Newsletter& receive FREE online access to our PasswordProtected "FREE Submit To Over 2.7 MILLION FREEAd Sites!" mailto:subscribe_fbcn9@emailexchange.orgVisit us at: http://emailexchange.org/?Articles |
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