How Private Is Email?
This one from the latest Langalist. Hi Fred. Maybe you can help with this concern. Where I work (a state agency) there is a lot of use of e-mail with hundreds of community agencies for communications. Sometimes this might include confidential information. It has been my understanding that email is not a secure method of sending confidential information and I have asked that it should only be sent as an encrypted attachment. We are concerned about both breach of confidentiality and potential identity theft of individuals concerned in the messages. Is email more private than I believe? Would you entrust your name and social security number and other confidential information to an email that was not encrypted? I wouldn’t unless I had it on good authority (such as you) that it’s a lot more secure than I thought. Many thanks for your help on many occasions. –Ken Dooley Email is neither secure nor private. First, there are problems with misdelivery and nondelivery. In the former case, the w
