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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (23)	12/2/1999 5:56:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 68

<Whether the threats that I have implied are real or imagined, likely or unlikely, what I said about enterprise aversions to this form of computing remains true. It's interesting that you should pick banking as an example, although you probably could have picked a better one to make your point. It's this sector, banking, specifically, whose internal audit controls would prohibit the mounting of their telecommuters' data on foreign servers, unless firewalling and encryption measures were used.> You are correct in asserting that there is a learning curve for the corporate (and individual) user in terms of actual security. That is why we are starting at the grassroots level, the retail consumer. Adding firewalling and encryption is really no big deal for sizeable corporations who would demand their own server clusters, but to locate them on the customer's premises sort of defeats the whole purpose, doesn't it? It is my opinion that widespread corporate adoption will lag retail consumer adoption due to: 1.) limited functionality and latency over the network, and; 2.) Micosoft, who happens to have secured multi-year Office contracts with many of the big corporations.