I think of email like a postcard. It's addressed to me, but anyone can read it if they snoop in my mailbox. I don't expect it to be really secure, and I don't do anything that requires real security via email. Simple enough.
what arrives in your inbox is often out of your control. account confirmation and password reset emails, pictures/info others send you who are more satisfied that you with the level of privacy normal email provides, etc.
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I think of email like a postcard. It's addressed to me, but anyone can read it if they snoop in my mailbox. I don't expect it to be really secure, and I don't do anything that requires real security via email. Simple enough.
what arrives in your inbox is often out of your control. account confirmation and password reset emails, pictures/info others send you who are more satisfied that you with the level of privacy normal email provides, etc.
Yes, to extend the postcard metaphor, it's like the bank sending a bank card PIN on a postcard. Not secure at all.