My issue is not default encryption, which I think is a &quot;good thing&quot;™. It&#x27;s that if you say &quot;Thunderbird: Encrypted by Default&quot;™, you give users a sense of security that is at least partially an illusion. This is something we would roundly criticize Google for if they were to say, for example, &quot;your email and searching is secure because you are using SSL&quot;. I feel it&#x27;s incumbent on an organization like Mozilla, one that I support at least partially because they are not building a platform to advance their own interests, to be very clear that email is encrypted en route, but not necessarily secure.<p>I&#x27;m guess I&#x27;m viewing it from a communications angle.