Thread: How secure was / is email
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Default How secure was / is email
On 23/01/2019 09:58, wrote:
Hi All,

I always believed that in the olden days (10-20 years ago). email travelling across the internet
Was unencrypted and insecure.

Recently a couple of people have suggested to me that these days its encrypted and always was.

Is it?
Yes, almost always

Was it?
No, not always

Secure 'in transit' as it were. A lot of people with server access at
each end could just read it if they wanted.

TW
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