Most Email Is Now Invisible To Hackers and Government Surveillance

  • 27 August 2014
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Jack Dutton  27th August 2014
 
How often do you open your email and wonder whether anyone else may have looked at it before you? If your email is not encrypted, you may have a good reason to worry.
Encryption involves encoding information sent in emails so that third parties cannot read it. Emails that are not encrypted can easily be read by hackers, or the government, if they are intercepted. 
In June, Google released data showing that only 50 per cent of all Gmail email exchanges were encrypted.
 


 
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Great article Jasper and good to know about email protection.

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