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[Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks



On 02/17/2015 04:05 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
> All the talk about solving the password problem is interesting - but not related to the original question -
>
> What is the most common, or most important, area that you actually see people communicating insecurely, that should be secured?  Email has got to be #1, and I'm guessing Dropbox/Box/Google Drive #2.  Is that it?  Or is there more?
>

Phone?  How much personal and medical information (or passwords for that 
matter) is transmitted that way?  Doctor's offices still have to use fax 
machines, don't they?

Voice phone is hard to secure unless you're doing VOIP over TLS, but 
even then unless you're doing end-to-end VOIP on a closed system there's 
usually a few hops where it is in the clear.

Matt



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