Secure E-mail Project

By completing the Secure E-mail Project, I discovered how important using security measures (like encrypted messages) is for companies and just people in general. The story found here about the hacking of Twitter employees' e-mails shows how helpful these security measures would have been to them and may have prevented this from happening. The hacker got access to an administrative employee's e-mail and was able to view private company information like spreadsheets, notes, and financial details. Luckily for Twitter, these documents were private however did not contain any information about account holders on the website. Companies like Twitter and Facebook are in the spotlight and should be even more careful about using secure e-mail. I think this was a wake-up call to Twitter and other social networking sights, showing how important secure e-mail is to them.