Sounds like these services actually shutting down is a good thing for the end users, since they aren't actually securely designed in the first place! They even

Sounds like these services actually shutting down is a good thing for the end users, since they aren't actually securely designed in the first place! They even admit in the article they'd have to properly design their system to make email unreadable by their staff, and they chose to shutter their service vs trying to figure out how to make that work and still make money.