Today I first heard about Opolis Secure Mail. I’ve you’ve read my previous posts, you know that I’m interested in email security (here and here). Unfortunately email encryption is a bit cumbersome today. That’s why I took a closer look at Opolis.
After browsing their website (which looks like a cheap copy of Apple’s website) I found it to be somewhat interesting. The closest thing I could think off is Hushmail combined with a branded email client. I was intrigued and had to give it a shot.
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Email is not the secure communication medium that most people take it for. Even if you’re using HTTPS or SSL to access your email account, after your message leaves your mail server it travels across the internet as relatively plain text until it reaches the intended recipient. During that journey, your message can be read or tampered with by cyber-criminals, government agencies, your ISP, unscrupulous network administrators, or anybody with some network knowledge and packet-sniffing software. Think of it more as sending a postcard through the mail, rather than a sealed envelope.
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