Re: Re: NEVER open attachments

[Jim Richardson <warlock () eskimo com>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:49:33PM -0800, Blue Boar wrote:
> Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> > If anything, you should *encourage* the use of PGP or S/MIME to sign mail,
>
> Absolutely.
>
> > because even if my machine gets whacked by a virus and starts spewing 
> > correctly
> > signed mail, you will *know* it's my machine doing it and not some
> > address-scraping virus on a machine in Zanzibar or someplace.
>
> Well, if a worm nails your machine to the point where it has your 
> private keys, there's nothing stopping it from carrying a copy on its 
> way to Zanzibar, for purposes of spoofing as you.
>
> We'd at least know you were compromised at one point, though. :)



Key won't do them much good if they don't have my passphrase :)

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Jim Richardson     http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
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