Remedies

To provide a reasonable level of privacy, all routers in the email pathway, and all connections between them, must be secured. This is done through data encryption, which translates the email s contents into incomprehensible text that, if designed correctly, can be decrypted only by the recipient. An industry-wide push toward regular encryption of email correspondence is slow in the making. However, there are certain standards that are already in place which some services have begun to employ.