On 5/4/22 16:40, Christopher Morrow wrote:
I imagine that the bulk of mail sent/delivered is:
1) between large mail providers (hotmail, gmail, etc)
2) business-to-business
The 1st is certainly not (after a few well publicized incidents)
storing plaintext on disk for folk to read...
No, but that doesn't mean that "folk" cannot read it.
The second almost all use a form of 'exchange' that .. also doesn't
store plain text on disk...
(and really the 2nd is subject to the employer/business having the
remit to review anyway...)
agree. I expect that even if we had a widely usable standard for
end-to-end encrypted mail, businesses would refuse to use it without
some way for them to automatically analyze and perhaps archive the
cleartext of inbound and/or outbound mail, whether for virus filtering,
detection of intellectual property being leaked, to meet legal
requirements in certain kinds of business, or whatever.
Keith
