Hey folks, normal email is not secure. It is not even necessary to hack into someone’s web email account to gain access to their email messages. The SMTP servers normal email messages must hop through to get from sender to recipients are generally not hardened (non secure). Hacking into such servers with Sniffing programs which forward copies of messages with certain addresses to third parties is not hard to do and happens frequently.
Andre Bacard, author of The Computer Privacy Handbook calls Normal Internet/email the most comprehensive surveillance system ever invented. Security was simply not a design priority when email as we know it was being invented.
That is correct, and cannot be repeated often enough. E-MAIL is NOT SECURE!
The only way to ensure security is to encrypt the message and use very strong passwords at both ends. Then, even if it is intercepted, it cannot be understood.
That is correct, and cannot be repeated often enough. E-MAIL is NOT SECURE!
The only way to ensure security is to encrypt the message and use very strong passwords at both ends. Then, even if it is intercepted, it cannot be understood.