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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paul Jones is Strategic Consultant in Informatics at Intrahealth International as well as the director of ibiblio.org (the site formerly known as MetaLab and SunSITE UNC). In addition to speaking and writing engagements all over the world and the internet, Paul teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Media and Journalism.
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Notes was secure only within itself, not so much outside the Notes environment. It was a nice trick and probably somewhat useful to those who didn't realize that most information security breaches happen not on the servers but on the end devices - PCs, Laptops and phones -- where the mail has already be decrypted. Then there is the act of communication itself...
Some email under some circumstances sent to the proper recipient can be occasionally secure.
But no email sent outside of a closed (say interoffice or intranet) is private even if encrypted. The very act of the communication and the fact that the contents have been encrypted attracts attention and reveals more than the content itself.