Your Confidential Emails Aren’t As Secure As You Think | Neil Seeman.
Pity Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment. An anonymous group calling itself Guardians of Peace exposed her thousands of emails to the world.
Ms. Pascal is a member of a large club of senior executives, many of whom are anonymous. Perhaps due to embarrassment, they have not stepped forward to admit to a demonstrable and dangerous truth: email is not secure.
Email is like mailing a postcard — anyone with physical access to it along the way can read it.
Many older people cannot understand why younger people use social networks to publish so much personal information for so many to easily access permanently.
At the same time, however, older people regularly transmit confidential information by email. Astonishingly, even lawyers, accountants, political leaders and financial professionals transmit highly confidential information by email.
