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Do not quite agree. Clearly having more attack surface is worse, but pushing large amounts of sensitive information through mail servers is increasing that surf
by a_imho 10y ago
Do not quite agree. Clearly having more attack surface is worse, but pushing large amounts of sensitive information through mail servers is increasing that surface as well.
- StavrosK 10y agoHow so? Any attacker can trivially push the information they're interested in right now anyway.
- a_imho 10y agoIf many were to change to email based auth the chances of any leaked (accidentally sent, tricked into forwarding etc) email containing sensitive info would go up significantly. E.g. any mail from medium.com has a very high probability of containing login info. Second, increased roi makes mail servers more of a target.