Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Is Your Email Encrypted Between Servers?

Google began encrypting email by default in 2010.

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Tuesday, it highlighted for users that encryption only protects messages if both parties use it. And it called out other email providers – including Comcast and France’s Orange – for not using encryption.

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Fewer than half of the messages sent to and from Micrososoft’s Hotmail servers were encrypted.

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Christopher Soghoian, a technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, says Google’s step Tuesday could help drag other tech companies forward.

“Google’s naming. We can shame,” Soghoian said. “And we will.”

  WSJ

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