By Dan Ilett
Published: Monday 27 March 2006
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Name
Anonymous
Location
London
Occupation
Consultant
Comment
Email encryption is important, not because of the risk of interception enroute, but more because of wrongly addressed email.
About 3 year's ago I was typosquatting on a synonym web address of one of the main ISP's. Nothing aggressive, and there was a redirect to the main site after 5 seconds. However one of the company executives mistyped an email address and inadvertently sent me several documents giving full details of a merger that they were planning with another national ISP. Those documents were unencrypted and easily accessible. Fortunately for the organisation concerned I "returned" the documents and told them that they had a problem. I subsequently sold them the domain name for £100.
If I had been uncharitable it could have been extremely costly and embarassing to them.
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