Reading through my feeds, I see recent posts from various sources that Google, Facebook and others are beginning to realize that:

Server to Server encryption of Email messages is never going to be secure.

TLS (Transport Layer Security) – a minimal implementation that allows servers to converse and exchange messages more securely — is not adopted in a high percentage of email servers across the internet.  Something in excess of 40% of Email servers don’t answer this protocol.

What can be done?

For starters: Personal Encryption.

See this Wikipedia Article for some remedial reading — we all need to understand this layer of engineering language.  Relax, there’s lots of pictures.

I’m committed to bringing this topic to the blog on a regular basis.  We’ll try to keep track of what’s being done, and how to easily adopt the best practices.

My forecast is that Services — Google to Facebook, many others will adopt a paradigm that supports personal encryption in various layers — including service to service.  At least you’d know, if you’re sharing credentials and info between a Blog, Facebook and Google (as I do now) that those channels would be secure.   This is big iron taking seriously our privacy needs.

Go man, Go!