It also includes a "preload list" of email servers that have promised to support STARTTLS, which can help detect downgrade attacks. According to the blog post, this means "more secure email, and less ...

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To send and receive messages, your email client transmits your username and password over the Internet to your mail server. By default, this information is sent unencrypted, which opens you up to the ...

Secure email providers offer end-to-end encryption to prevent third parties from seeing transmitted content. Fully encrypted email providers aren't quite as common as end-to-end encrypted texting ...

Editor's note: This post was originally published on Scott Helme's blog, and was reprinted to ZDNet with permission. I was recently invited to take part in some research by BBC Click, alongside ...