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Why do you need
EaSecure?
You need EaSecure for the same reason you need an envelope to send
your personal letters. Sending an unencrypted email is
much worse than
sending a post card. Emails traveling
over the Internet can be easily intercepted and read by others. Multiple copies of your emails can be intentionally or
unintentionally stored at dozens if not hundreds of places for a long time, or even permanently.
(See "How many servers does my email travel
through?" below.) They can be easily searched, categorized, and analyzed
by identity thieves, hackers,
marketers, spammers, competitors, and "Big Brothers." For this
reason, every one of your email messages should be encrypted, just like every
one of
your personal letters should have an envelope.
Exposing your communication to prying eyes is only one of the vulnerabilities
of regular email. Another vulnerability is that email communications can be easily
forged or tampered with. Spammers routinely send out email messages pretending
to be from addresses they do not own. Just because an email message
you receive has your friend's email address in the "From:" field does not mean
that it is truly from your friend. For this reason, every email message should
be digitally signed. Digital signatures cannot be forged and digitally signed
messages cannot be tampered with.
Every EaSecure message is encrypted
and digitally signed using the strongest encryption algorithms available today. If you send out an EaSecure
message, you can be sure that your message is protected against prying eyes. If you
can successfully open an EaSecure message and the "From:" field shows your
friend's email address, you can be sure that the message is truly from your
friend and has not been tampered with.
In addition to such robust protection, EaSecure is also extremely easy to use. In fact,
sending and opening EaSecure messages is not much different from sending and
opening ordinary emails, especially when you use an EaSecure plug-in for your
email program. There is no complicated setup process (such as generating
public/private keys and obtaining certificates) before you can use EaSecure. All
you need to do is open your first EaSecure message using the EaSecure software and create your own password.
Your public/private keys and certificates will be automatically established. You will
then be able to open
all EaSecure messages sent to your email address using your own password and be able
to send EaSecure messages to ANYONE who has an email address, even if the
recipient is
not an EaSecure user yet.
Because EaSecure
combines all this protection with such ease-of-use, allowing you to send to anyone
with an email address, there is no reason to send ordinary unprotected emails
anymore!
How many servers does your email travel through?
To see
how many servers your emails can travel through, open a
Command Prompt window (looks like an MS-DOS window) while connected to the
Internet and type:
tracert <domain>[ENTER]
where "<domain>" represents the recipient's domain (the part of recipient's
email address that appears after the "@" symbol). A list of every machine the
message is routed through will appear. Each of these machines (and every machine
on the same local network of each machine listed) will have access to your
email message. For example:

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