Brian Gaff wrote

Yes the packets could be intercepted if they all went the same way I
guess.

There really is no such thing as secure, just the likelihood of it being
insecure.

That’s bull****, most obviously with net banking.

After all in transit you first have to be looking when it goes past unless
you want to store everything, examine it and then pass it on and I'd
imagine that would end up with a detectable latency!

Nothing to stop you keeping what passes thru your system.

I think in many ways the biggest danger today is that if somebody gets
lots of little clues about a person they may be able to identify them even
if the identity was encrypted as this is how private investigators used
to work with paper clues.

"TimW" wrote in message
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On 23/01/2019 09:58, wrote:
Hi All,

I always believed that in the olden day's (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 it's
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