Email, one of the most easiest and fastest way of communication and also free is used by virtually everyone on the internet. While being one of the most helpful tools in exchanging information, email and its servers have long been criticized for being inept in dealing with privacy. Every message that is sent through the internet could be grabbed up and investigated to find private and interesting information about its user. This could easily be done by anyone who has the essential know-how to do it, which makes email privacy practically non-existent. To this some have replied that most users don't have their essential information in their emails or post a simple and ignorant question/statement "why should I worry? i got nothing important in here!" But in today's world where companies use email as a source for communicating to their customers, almost everyone has got some financial, sexual, social, political, or professional secrets stashed away in their emails leading towards an inevitable threat towards our privacy. These are threats such as email tracing, information leaks, spam, email viruses(trojans) etc. which can lead towards identity theft, financial hacking and much more. There are measures that somewhat help in preventing such scenarios such as changing passwords regularly, viewing email offline, disabling javascript etc. but unfortunately they also don't guarantee a complete prevention from getting hacked. So, I would just advise to be careful and alert, and maybe try to limit how much important information you have in your mails. Hope this was interesting and helpful.
PS: For more information over the subject with complete details and tips on keeping your email safe you could visit http://www.emailprivacy.info/ This website has a lot of useful information to offer !
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