April 2020 • Macworld 97Apple’s iCloud security
overview states that though
traffic between your Apple
devices and the iCloud Mail
system is encrypted
rely on it. Beyond just communicating with people,
tools like password resets, user accounts, and
other means of proving one’s identity continue to
depend on the infrastructure of email.
As it happens, Apple does support an email
encryption standard called S/MIME on iOS and
macOS, but it’s not enabled by default – and setting
it up requires some technical know-how involving
certificate generation and installing profiles that’s
frankly beyond the capabilities or interests of most
average users. It seems, though, that if Apple really
wanted to push for more secure email, it certainly
has the clout to do so – at least between users
of its mail service and perhaps even, with some
cooperation, between big mail providers such as