One of the United States Senate’s most tech-savvy members is asking why much of the US military’s email still isn’t protected by standard STARTTLS encryption technology.
Last month, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) shared his concerns with DISA, the federal organization that runs mail.mil for the US army, navy, marines and the Coast Guard:
The technology industry created STARTTLS fifteen years ago to allow email servers to communicate securely and protect email messages from surveillance as they are transmitted over the internet.
