Dr John Dimmock

South Coast UK

Technical Director

The wide area network cannot be truly policed simply because it is not owned by any government, corporation or individual; this means that security must be the responsibility of the user

There are many ways of securing emails including (free) public key encryption, the main problem is that the vast majority of users simply do not understand the “open” nature of the “inter” network and have quite understandably become accustomed to the great speeds available and low costs in respect to written communications

Snail mail, using the UK national postal system (Royal Mail) is at least in some kind of “wrapper” and is (at this time) delivered by “trusted” employees; email in its basic format is simply not a secure transit method

Dr John L Dimmock - Technical Director
Media Services Sussex Ltd
Metroweb Network Services
First Internet UK Ltd
MetroCell Ltd