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Why — After 40 Years — Are We Still Using Unencrypted and Unverified Email?

Email was the killer app that made the Internet and which was closely followed by the Web. And so port 25 (SMTP — Simple Mail Transport Protocol) and port 80 (HTTP) built the Internet. But, while the Web has become more secure and trusted (with a move to HTTPs), we still blindly send unsecured and unverified emails. Overall, the use of email it is still the…