Email is not a secure service<\/strong>. Even if you use a secure transport like HTTPS or SSL to access your mail, once your messages leave your email provider’s mail server they travel unencrypted over the Internet to the recipient’s mail server. For this reason you really should not use regular email to send credit card numbers, SSNs or confidential personal or business information. Messages can be intercepted and read by employers, ISPs, government agencies and hackers. Fax or even a voice phone call is significantly safer but still subject to eavesdropping particularly by telephone service providers and the government.<\/p>\n
Secure email is possible only if messages are encrypted by the sender and decrypted by the recipient using something like OpenPGP, BouncyCastle or GNU Privacy Guard. These tools are somewhat cumbersome to use and require both sender and recipient to have the encryption package installed on their PC. These tools are also not available for most mobile phones. However there is an alternative that’s relatively easy to use, secure web mail<\/strong>. The oldest (since 1997) and largest secure web mail provider Hushmail.com<\/a>, recently launched a mobile web based version of their product at m.hushmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Hushmail and it’s mobile version are a great way to do secure email with a minimum of inconvenience. While I’m sure none of my readers would do anything illegal, Hushmail warns that you may not be protected if you use HushMail for email related to any activity which is illegal in either your home country, your recipient’s country or Canada, where Hushmail is based. Hushmail must respond to valid Canadian court orders including international court orders from countries that have a mutual assistance treaty with Canada. In fact HushMail cooperated recently with US authorities<\/a> to turn over decrypted emails in a case involving the sale of illegal anabolic steroid drugs.<\/p>\n
Via:<\/em> Mobile Mammoth<\/a><\/p>\n
Mobile Link<\/em>: m.hushmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n
Ratings:<\/em> Content: Usability:
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Email is not a secure service. Even if you use a secure transport like HTTPS or SSL to access your mail, once your messages leave your email provider’s mail server they travel unencrypted over the Internet to the recipient’s mail server. For this reason you really should not use regular email to send credit card numbers, SSNs or confidential personal or business information. Messages can be intercepted and read by employers, ISPs, government agencies and hackers. Fax or even a … Continue reading