exactly. Like an email with an attachment. Oh no thats not secure. Neither was physical mail and the docs really should not have anything all that sensitive on them. Its been long statnding practice to only show the last four digits of accounts and such. Not to mention why the heck don't we have a guaranteed email address for life rather than relying on companies that may or may not do the service from year to year. And just maybe that service can have multiple levels of service including completely encrypted and any attempt to get it would require a court order under a full legal process and otherwise decrypting it if your not the intended reciever would be a federal offense. and maybe the entity that runs it could regulate banks N junk to have to send such stuff encrypted.