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Confidentiality of email messages.

Asked by pkpetro in Email Clients

I'm concerned with the confidentiality of my e-mails to banks, lawyers, etc., in case they can be intercepted and read by third parties, including employees of my local ISP, or others through such employees. (Unfortunately, some ISP employees provide such services for money...) I use Windows XP/IE6/Outlook Express. Questions:

1) I guess that using a web mail (such as Yahoo etc) is safer than using my local ISP as my e-mail address. At least, ISP employees (or third parties through them) cannot read my e-mails on their server. Of course, they can see that I'm visiting, say, Yahoo Mail, but can they enter my Yahoo inbox, since the password I type is shown as asterisks?

2) If I'm not mistaken, PGP and similar encryption programs require that the recipient also has the program installed. Unfortunately, this is seldom the case with my recipients. Neither can I ask them (as is the case with some anonymity methods) to visit an anonymity site, remember and type my code number in order to read my message, and then answer in the same way. It just isn't easy and practical for them to do that for any one of their clients. Correct?

3) On the other hand, reading articles on anonymous email, I can see that remailers will send my messages without From: my e-mail name@address so that (a) my recipient will not be able to see the sender and may delete the message thinking it is spam, (b) he will not know whom-where to reply to, and (c) his reply can be intercepted and read, if sent to my local e-mail address in the normal way. So, again, a web email account is safer and simpler. Is this so?

Thank you for answering my questions.

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Confidentiality of email messages.

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