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Re: Insecure or Unsecure
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 17:58:42 +0100 (BST)
Plain text email is not insecure.
This demonstrates the fact that I don't know what "insecure" means. A plain text email can be read by any of the servers it routes over; that's why banks don't like credit card numbers to be sent via plain email. So, plain text email is insecure. On the other hand, a plain text email can't carry malicious software, so it's secure. So is plain text email secure or insecure? Answer - I don't know. You have to say "secure against some particular threat", you can't say "secure". Is software secure or insecure? Same answer. I don't know. On the grammatical question originally asked, "unsecure" is a verb, "insecure" is an adjective.
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- Insecure or Unsecure Douglas F. Calvert (Sep 06)
- Re: Insecure or Unsecure miah (Sep 06)
- RE: Insecure or Unsecure Dave Korn (Sep 06)
- Re: Insecure or Unsecure Etaoin Shrdlu (Sep 06)
- Re: Insecure or Unsecure Drsolly (Sep 06)
- Re: Insecure or Unsecure MadHat (Sep 06)
- Re: Insecure or Unsecure nummish (Sep 06)
- Re: Insecure or Unsecure Daryl Tester (Sep 08)
- Re: Insecure or Unsecure Drsolly (Sep 06)
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