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Message-ID: <405B5CDD.9090003@thievco.com> From: BlueBoar at thievco.com (Blue Boar) Subject: Re: NEVER open attachments 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. :) BB
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