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Originally Posted by avantman42
Completely agree with Dennis. The idea that product A has better security than product B just because you have to pay for it is absurd. People have been trotting this out about Linux vs Windows security for years, and it's ridiculous.
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The basis of security is knowledge, and too many lack it.
I run both Windows and Linux, and have never had a problem, because I
have knowledge and know how be be secure.
(And Windows is a lot more secure than it used to be. A lot of the problems stem from being originally written in the days when nobody thought someone might
deliberately try to do something like overflow a buffer to make a system unstable and potentially insecure. These days, the default assumption is "
Never trust your data!", and take measures to deal with the fact that what you get might not be what the program it's fed to expects to deal with.)
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The only difference I can see is that if you're typing in your password, you're vulnerable to a keyboard sniffer. But only if you have things set up so that you have to type in your password, and only if you're not using two-factor authentication. If you have a client and have it set up so that you have to type in the password every time, you're still vulnerable to a keyboard sniffer.
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That's dependent upon circumstances, and where you are and how you connect when you do. It's not something I worry about, in part because I'm not manually entering passwords.
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There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches, so I'd say use the one that you prefer.
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I know folks who prefer to download to a local mailstore, but that's because of a long established workflow in place from before webmail became common. They
could use webmail, but changing the workflow would be a pain.
For most folks, I recommend webmail, with the proviso of being fussy about who provides it.
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Dennis