Protecting your wifi internet

If your mother uses wifi at home to send you e-mail, and your home network is not protected by WEP or WPA, what reasons would you suggest to her for enabling one of these two protocols at home if the liability of reading those e-mails still exists once her message leaves your home, on it’s way to school?


Protecting your internet is a major priority in this day and age.  Unfortunately not every internet user is a nice considerate individual some people are seeking to gather information from various  individuals and exploit that information.  First off some emails can contain valuable information from mother to son or from one individual to another, though providing such valuable information is not the best choice it is used to communicate information.  Secondly individuals looking to exploit others could begin to hack into someone's email and from there can gather information about them or can begin to send viruses to them as well as their contacts.  Therefore I believe it is a necessity to protect your own internet, because protecting your internet is protecting all of your personal information.