Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Microsoft Word Document captured via SMTP

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Philip wrote:
> Alok wrote:
>
> ..  lazy boy question:
> ..  Why cant u ask the sender/receiver to email it 
> ..  to you :) ?
>
> I'm trying to prove to my end users that sending data
> via email is not secure unless there is some form of
> encryption.  One user suggested putting the
> information in a MS Word document.

If you use more, to look at a Word document, you'll see a lot of junk, 
but the text is plainly visible.  You should see similar with ethereal.