>>>That is incorrect. The reality is that email can easily be encrypted and secured against most all intrusion attempts except perhaps state agencies with massive resources. Even then, current strong encryption techniques I think are still unbroken (PGP, AES, etc.)
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>Have you participated in that? I have and it's a pita unless you know 100% of your email recipients and they have the correct plugins and keys. Ironically if often requires unencrypted email instructions to get the encrypted one sorted!

Well, I have. In the early/middle nineties it was necessary if communicating with some banks over here to use PGP (not only IT dep and head honchos)
When that requirement was dropped within a very short time by several banks, it raised an eyebrow. As disinformation also follows the onion model, unsure how to interpret, but current belief is in line with the part of Snowden docs that say PGP is still unbroken but some rainbow tables guiding key generation are tainted.