full-disclosure - The worm author finally revealed!

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From: DaveHowe at cmn.sharp-uk.co.uk (David Howe)
Subject: The worm author finally revealed!

> Henrik,
>> I guess many people also thinks that having a PGP signature
>> on mails make them - true (while paranoid people would
>> actually verify the signatures)
> No, PGP signatures help me establish trust to individuals by
> allowing me to connect messages by the same individual to
> each other and then decide whether I trust that person. That
> a key also has a more-or-less pronounceable name embedded
> simply helps my brain to remember which individual was just
> talking.
what annoys me is when users post signed messages *but refuse to upload
their keys*
WTF? "I might need to prove I said it someday" is *not* a valid reason
to waste my bandwidth just to give you a publication claim at some
unlikely future point.