Encryption Service Aims to Make Email Truly Private

WASHINGTON

Clicking through a clogged inbox overflowing with spam and unanswered messages, it may begin to feel that email is more nuisance than help in these days of instant texts and Snapchats.

Still, email remains a primary communications tool both for global business and personal matters.

Ensuring its privacy and security is of paramount importance as seen in news last week that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used non-government email services.

Email is much less secure than we people think, analysts say.

Phishing, Trojan Horses, injection, spoofing these are just a few of the many ways email continues to prove itself easily compromised.

Now, a partial solution might be at hand

Its called ProtonMail, and while it isnt fool-proof, it puts genuinely sophisticated encryption tools at hand of even inexperienced web users.

Fighting for privacy

Many of us probably think, well, one email, there's nothing in there, right? asks Andy Yen, co-creator of ProtonMail in a recent TED Conferencepresentation.

Read more from the original source:
Encryption Service Aims to Make Email Truly Private