Email and other Internet-protocol based communication media (such as ftp, telnet, and various messenger-style applications) are inherently insecure. They were never designed otherwise. Each of these technologies has many a secure correlate (seure email clients, secure ftp, ssh2, and surely a secure messenger client or two). We need to begin using these by default.

In corporate and government use, these tools need to facilitate second level access to all encrypted files including emails. Access is required by a system administrator, in cases where the organization requires access to the encrypted data. In most countries, it is the organization which owns the content, not the employee.

Parents, guardians, and teachers may have the same requirement.