With each passing week we must face the developing realization that the expectation of our digital communication remaining private is no long valid. Sony’s troubles appear to be the tip of the iceberg with this week’s news that Russian hackers accessed unclassified emails from the White House just a year after achieving similar access at the Pentagon.

Seeing this happening at an increasing rate, renowned VC Fred Wilson recently authored this post on his blog about the new reality of email no longer being private in the post-Sony Hack world. The convergence of the hacker culture and the increasing volume and value of the information we communicate digitally has led to the unfortunate fact that we can no longer assume our emails will remain between us and the recipient. In fact, Wilson believes we’ve reached a point where the opposite is true. We should now assume that our emails will assuredly become public and write them accordingly. …