After the
PRISM’s intention has been shed on broad day light, people get paranoid over
the things they do in the Net. Email is certainly one of their concerns. Given
that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act is still in debate, this PRISM
thingy is just adding in the horror. It is also said that any encrypted emails,
messages or files will be kept even longer by the NSA until they see what’s
inside the secure envelope you are sending out.
Today I am going
to share with you ways to secure one aspect of the “Big Boy’s” watch list. The
emails. Emails has been crucial nowadays from cooperate usage until personal
usages. Gone were the days where people install email client in their machine
to use emails (well some of them still do) but people nowadays are very happy
in what the web base emails can give them. Cutting of the configuration time
and getting the right settings on place, now you can do almost anything in web.
There was something lacking in web base emails which is encryption. With email
clients such as Thunderbird, Outlook and etc, you have the option to encrypt
the emails using PGP methodology however in web based emails they are just not there yet (or maybe forever). Well
I don’t think the email providers would ever do that feature built in their
emails on web but however some people who are concerned about security made a
few tools that can help us to achieve just that missing part in the web based
emails.
