[NTLUG:Discuss] OT? security comparsion

[Terry]

On 11/15/05, m m <llliiilll at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> A lot of security experts say sending important on the internet is not a
> good idea.
> It is true. But a lot of advantages make people willing to send importand
> information over internet.
> Pay by credit card online is one of the example.

Probably the easiest measure you can take is just write to a text file
and then compress it and send as attached .gz or .zip  file.   I
usually use .zip
i.e.
   edit file.txt
   [my sentitive information, passwords etc.]
   zip file.zip file.txt

Send file.zip as attached file.