At 12:21 PM 5/24/02 -0700, Curt Smith wrote:

If there were servers on the internet which automatically displayed all plaintext e-mail messages which passed through them as webpages (for the bored, curious, and opportunistic), THEN everyone would see the value of encrypted e-mail.

Hmm, didn't Sircam do a bit of that? But it sent files, not your entire mail spool; and it didn't try too hard to broadcast (it could have always forwarded a copy to usenet in addition to your contacts). Not sure if disk-encryption would have helped; it just would have sent one of the open (cleartext) files. Sircam forwarding a saved, encrypted email would have been harmless modulo traffic analysis. To encourage WiFi encryption you could use a high-gain antenna and anonymously (re) broadcast traffic you found. And publicize the site. Don't do this too early during deployment or you'll stunt the early growth.