Here's what you need to know: Someone sitting on a node point (or able to attach to it) essentially can read in plain text anything that is not encrypted.
Also, the simpler encryption is not that hard to break either (I'm not going to go into details on that).
The internet was built for reliability - not security. It takes a lot of real work to make it secure.
The concept of Internet Security is almost an oxymoron.
There's some security these days with the most common software. But, you really have to work at really having secure communications - and privacy too.
When did you first start using the internet?
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I want to hear the details of the second part
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Here's what you need to know: Someone sitting on a node point (or able to attach to it) essentially can read in plain text anything that is not encrypted.
Also, the simpler encryption is not that hard to break either (I'm not going to go into details on that).
The internet was built for reliability - not security. It takes a lot of real work to make it secure.
The concept of Internet Security is almost an oxymoron.
There's some security these days with the most common software. But, you really have to work at really having secure communications - and privacy too.
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Also, Look up "packet sniffers"
DSL is often done in a ring arrangement and someone with a packet sniffer can read all the internet traffic from any other people on the ring.
Other networks have other ways to access the data.