Email or electronic mail is by its very nature not secure. It would be more appropriate to call it e-postcard.
When you send someone an email it is coppied from server to server till it gets to the destintation.
That is the same as sending a postcard to someone, and every person who sees it takes a photocopy
It then sits on this computer till the recipient downloads it. This can be anything from a few minutes to several days.
While this mail sits on the server it is ment to be secure.
In reality it is just as secure as that postcard sitting in your mail box.
Any person who has access to your mail box (legal or otherwise) can read that mail message and do whatever with it.
You could use encryption, but who really has the time and can be bothered with setting it up?
...and encryption can only be so secure. Given enough time anything can be decrypted.
So you are probably sitting there wondering what can be done to secure your messages.
When it came to this I was stumped. I could not think of very much...
...I guess encryption may make people not bother to read it...
...but it is like putting a sign on a button saying "do not push" so encryption could draw attention to an email.
I guess for most email..to family and friends etc. it is not really important to use this level
just because of the amount of email being generated every day is so emense that it would be hard to single out specific
email messages, and really who cares about your aunt marys false teeth??