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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Do you really think securing email is that easy? One wrong click on a configuration or opening a weaponized attachment or browsing to a watering hole, and kiss your "security" good bye. [/b]

Oh, and when nation states are up against you, you really don't have a prayer.[/quote]

That's why paid services are significantly more secure - they have the firewall and filtering in place to stop much of that.  Not foolproof, and not NSA-proof, but much more secure than gmail/yahoo/msn.[/quote]

But sometimes that lulls people into a false sense of security. If you use an AOL account and have had your account hacked once or twice, you're going to know it's a risk and perhaps will be more thoughtful about what you put into email going forward. If you have a more secure service that you (wrongfully) view as basically foolproof because you're paying for it, you're more likely to use it for sensitive materials that you'd never want to fall into a hacker's hands.

Also, whenever I've used that kind of paid service (such as an employer's system), the aggressive filters would sometimes catch valid emails we needed to receive, and so we were still instructed to regularly check our filtered mail as well. As soon as you have laypersons digging through filtered email, you've drastically lowered the effective security of your system due to what they might accidentally or ignorantly open.[/quote]

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