Quote:If you’ve been using PGP—short for Pretty Good Privacy—to send and receive encrypted emails, it might be time to switch to a different service to maintain the privacy of your communications. A brand-new vulnerability, hilariously called EFAIL, can reveal the contents of your emails (even older emails, in certain cases) in plaintext. Goodbye, secrecy.

If you just use your favorite email service to send regular messages to friends, read awesome newsletters, or put businesses you’re mad at on blast, these issues don’t affect you at all. You’ll know if you’re using PGP, because the entire premise of the program is based around using public and private keys—huge strings of text—to encrypt and decrypt messages.