If your mother uses Wi-Fi at home to send you e-mail, and your home network is not protected by WEP or WPA, what reasons would you suggest to her for enabling one of these two protocols at home if the liability of reading those e-mails still exists once her message leaves your home, on its way to school?
The reason I would tell her is the simple fact of wanting privacy. Even though its electronic mail, it’s still mail and I would like to know that no one else is going to read the conversation except for the person it’s being sent to. If you are over the age of 18 in the U.S. then it’s illegal for even your parents to read any mail that is sent to you, even if it’s from your doctors; why, then, should virtually anyone in the world who know to hack in or even just be able to browse through your conversations online? Having WEP or WPA would allow for the both of us to have a lot more comfort that we are solely only speaking to each other and no one else. Also, I would tell her that it doesn’t just end with our emails back and forth to each other, but any other email and other things she posts online that she thinks are private.
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