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For the secure email project we were required to find an article that talked about a company and secure email. The article I found was on the Wall Street Journal. The article can be found here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703628204575618620657780244.html
This article talked about how Deutsche Post AG, a German company and Europe's largest postal service, is trying to get consumers to use online mail instead of conventional paper. Although there are many free email services such as Gmail and Yahoo the company is trying to sell their "E-Post letter" service on the grounds that it is very secure email. The mailbox is free but it costs 75 USD cents to send a letter. Currently 1 million people have signed up for the service.
To test the security of their E-Post letter system Deutsche Post invited "teams of hackers, academics and security experts" to try and break into their system. If any problems are found they are immediately fixed without the public even knowing. Deutsche Post says that so far 100 large companies have signed up for the service for activities such as "employee pay stubs and sending legally binding information."
Personally I think that this is a very interesting article. It is shocking to me in a way that companies and individuals would pay so much for a service but it also shows the value of secure email at the same time.
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