E-Mail at Risk?

The Washington Post had an article in yesterday’s paper called E-Mail at Risk? Cover It With Encryption.

“Current e-mail technology does not provide any confidentiality,” said Peter Hesse, president of Gemini Security Solutions, a Chantilly-based firm specializing in security audits and installations. “In fact, the e-mail standards include routing messages between mail servers . . . each transmission and each server offer opportunities to read messages.”

Read the article for that and many other brilliant comments by yours truly!

Actually, the premise of the article is interesting. It’s in the Sunday paper, which means it’s going to be read by many average people over coffee and donuts. I wonder if it will lead to any more adoption of PGP or other email encryption technologies?