This brings me to a key question (no pun intended): Do we have any idea how often someone — a hacker, for instance– is intercepting data transmissions such as e-mail over the Net?
Stewart Baker: I’m not a technologist, but it’s my understanding that eavesdropping on the Internet is a lot harder than most people believe. The packets are traveling separately across the Net and are often reassembled only on the user’s servers. So eavesdropping between servers is often extremely difficult.
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