This is why email nowadays is cripplingly dangerous

European security researchers have warned that two obscure email encryption schemes called OpenPGP and S/Mime are broken. The exploit released by the researchers, who dubbed it Efail, shows that encrypted email of any kind is impractical and hard to execute. In fact, email is the main tool that people use to hack and rob others online. A hack could be as simple as sending an email to someone; when they open the message, the attacker could steal the contents of their entire inbox.