said by ZapperO 
:said by pnh102 : quote:
The risk of continuing to use 30gigs.com to receive or send confidential email should be obvious.
Emphasis mine.
There has never been any way to send a
confidential email. No matter what email service you use the contents of any email can easily be intercepted and exposed.
Actually, you can get encryption technology that would make use of any pop3 or imap email system secure (even 30gigs.com if they offer pop3 access).
The catch is that you need to trade security certificates with every person you email. Furthermore, you need to use a desktop based email program (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) to handle the encryption/decryption of the messages.
If you are into WebMail, you can use HUSHMAIL (»
