Email messages wiretapping risks

People usually believe that emails travel directly from sender to recipient, without any kind of mediation. From a technical standpoint, however, email message's path is way more articulate.

An email message is actually similar to a greeting card: its content is easily readable (or even changeable), and actually subject to many views during transit.

Consider some of the vulnerability issues and risk factors of e-mail:

• it’s fully accessible by system administrators;

• it’s potentially accessible by "crackers" during transit (sniffing / tampering);

• sending server can be tracked down through sender’s IP (tracking);

• all the email history remains stored in servers backups.

In light of this, it’s easy to understand that the confidentiality of email communications is never 100% secure.

PrivateMAIL works like a strongbox: once it arrives at its destination, the email content can only be accessed with the key that the sender himself will provide the recipient.