full-disclosure - Re: NEVER open attachments

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From: warlock at eskimo.com (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: NEVER open attachments

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:49:33PM -0800, Blue Boar wrote:
>Valdis.Kletnieks@...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 :)

-- 
Jim Richardson     http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
Windows XP... now runs all your favorite viruses.
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