Simon

Cumbria

IT

I'm inclided to agree with Gareth, the risks are somewhat overstated. The contention on broadband is a complete red herring - just because there's contention doesn't mean the others are able to see your data.

Especially if the business sets up it's servers to deliver direct, rather than via an outbound proxy, then the emails might never actually reside on any server between source and destination, so they would have to be intercetped at the packet level. Doing that, reliably, and patching the bits back into something useable is a far from trivial task - far, far, far easier to simply nick the FDs laptop and read all the files, unencrypted, on it !