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What ‘EFail’ means for your email privacy

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It’s never been easy to encrypt email communications fully, from one end to the other. Security experts have long said the only way to secure email from snooping is to use a somewhat-cumbersome multistep process involving a cryptographic key exchange called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP. READ MORE ON EMAIL SECURITY.

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Is Gmail’s Confidential Mode a safe bet?

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When email goes boom, it’s usually because somebody’s account got hacked, and his dirty laundry has exploded all over the Internet. It’s called Confidential Mode, and you can think of it as self-destructing email. READ MORE ON EMAIL SECURITY. Get an extortion scam email? It enables senders to set a self-deleting timer.

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