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		bradbeattie on July 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poll: Do you encrypt your email? If the SMTP server relays your message in plain text, isn't it vulnerable to snooping in transit?

jlgaddis on July 15, 2013 [–]

Yep, and that's the weakest link -- and the one that the NSA is taking advantage of.

It will be a wonderful day when the RFCs are updated to require TLS for SMTP.

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