Is Your Email being Watched?

Most of the time, we as the email service users are worried if the emails are being read by someone else. When the email itself contains the confidential data or attached documentations, we might start wondering if there's other more secured email service provider available.


General Facts:
Yes, it's possible that your emails can be read by system administrator at the company which is hosting your email.

Odd of occurrence:
Nearly impossible. Apparently the emails are routed on the servers which are owned by many government and private sector organizations. The numbers can be thousands or more. Let's say if a system administrator would like to capture a particular email and read it. Consider more than 2 million emails are sent every second, and thousands of paths available for email to move through randomly, it could be difficult and unpredictable.

What if someone hit the Jackpot:
Yes, no matter how low the chances, there's always 0.000000001% (amazing or wonderful occurrence) a.k.a Miracle.


Here's the good practices:
If you're sending highly confidential data via emails, make sure your attachments are encrypted. So does your message bodies. And try not to be explicit on your email title, as long as the sender and the receiver understand each other.
If it's for the company or bank or government, the best practice is to use their provided online email or forms. It's because the message is encrypted between your machine and their server through the internet (Make sure it's a https://)

Everyone keep on saying encryption, how to do that:
Please visit the following link: http://www.truecrypt.org/

It is a free encryption software, and certainly reliable (So far). You can perform self-encryption and only the receiver that has the your password is able to decrypt the encrypted documents.











Last Word
Be extremely cautious in the cyber world, things might get really HOT if you lost your focus.