keith2468
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-03
Winnipeg, MB
| reply to andyv420
Re: Poll: What is most secure Web-based email?
Email isn't truly secure unless you encrypt it, because no matter who hosts your email, it passes through other servers and nodes on its way from origin to destination. That is why you should never put your credit card numbers or SSN (SIN in Canada) in an unencrypted email.
How secure do you need your email to be?
Assuming that you aren't putting anything as confidential as a credit card number or SSN in your email, I have this to say...
One could argue a small web based email is going to be more secure because it is a smaller target. Hackers and scriptkiddies won't be targetting it.
So a small ISPs webmail offering might be the most secure.
(One can scoff and call this security by obscurity, but for many things security by obsurity is a valid layer. But like any other security layer security by obscurity cannot be relied upon.)
On the other hand, if the ISP is too small, they might not have the expertise or the budget for all the other layers of security.
Also, the larger sites, like Hotmail and Yahoo have been probed and tested.
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