Only 2.5 percent of Journalists solicit end-to-end encrypted communication

This year, I've had two medical providers I'm interacting with for the first time email me health/diagnosis related material (regular old email, no cryptography nor "log into your secure email" web site involvement). I'm not sure what role HIPAA's really playing, these days.

I'm increasingly expecting "the government" (specifically, for me, in the U.S.)to step in with the old rubber hose / lead pipe and "secure" email by dint of finding ways to prosecute people who "steal" data -- even when that data is not physically/cryptographically secured at all.

Use and mainstream economic dependency have grown to the size where that is how they will "solve" the problem, I expect.

What exactly is "secure email address"

I know of some services but they are for protecting the sender. Why would the receiver (journalist) need to use secure mail? Or is there some system I'm not familiar with?

Also, I bet if someone made it really easy to do this that more would.

<cynicism>Though I'm sure as soon as they do some enterprising PR people will start using it to spam them their press releases</cynicism>

As a completed unrelated comment: This was on the front-page with 4 votes. Slow news day? I thought it usually took more to get to the front page.