Category — Security

Email is not secure. Unless you explicitly encrypt your email message and attachments, the content of your email will bounce across servers and the Internet unencrypted, and in readable text.

Most people have a false sense of security when it comes to email. It is common for emails containing sensitive information, to be quickly drafted and sent to the destination address. It serves well to think of an unencrypted email as a postcard being sent through the postal mail. Each letter carrier can potentially read the contents of the postcard. With email, the same basic concept applies because the message, once sent and received, is likely to exist on at least two email servers, after passing through multiple network segments which could be prone to network sniffing. The origin and the destination.

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