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Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent

From: Daniel Corbe <dcorbe () hammerfiber com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 06:37:25 -0400



On 5/15/2018 05:59, Brian Kantor wrote:


I imagine some fool told them this improves security, and they were
stupid enough to believe it.
      - Brian


It's a bit simpler than that.   Too many people are dazzled by polished
presentations.   It's a sad fact of life that there are way too many
people walking around that are distracted by shiny things.

Current thread:

Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent George William Herbert (May 14)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Suresh Ramasubramanian (May 14)
  - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Rich Kulawiec (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Brandon Butterworth (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Rich Kulawiec (May 16)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Brian Kantor (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Bjørn Mork (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Daniel Corbe (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Mike Hammett (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Stephen Satchell (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Alan Buxey (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Hunter Fuller (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Rob McEwen (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Jim Shankland (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent nanog (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent bzs (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Mark Rousell (May 15)
    - Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Octavio Alvarez (May 16)

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