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Do you really think these emails are being intercepted by third parties? Surely the recipients are leaking them and no encryption scheme can prevent that.
by aaronsw 16y ago
Do you really think these emails are being intercepted by third parties? Surely the recipients are leaking them and no encryption scheme can prevent that.
- pvg 16y agothe recipients Or the senders, encryption being equally useless in that case, as well.
- nkurz 16y agoTrue, encryption probably wouldn't help, but you could probably come up with a scheme to watermark the messages. You could make it look like the same thing was sent a large CC list, but be able to determine the source of the leak by a changed word or two. Makes you wonder if some of these smart people are already doing it.
- inerte 16y agoThis technique has been used for a while, and it's widely known. It's "easy" to defeat, you need to ask someone else for a copy, and match its contents/changes with the copy from the original leaker. I don't mean to say it's a bad idea, and it's standard practice in enterprise environments, but it's no silver bullet either. Plus, to align with parent messages, it won't prevent leaking, it just helps to identify the person.
- bl4k 16y agoThis email makes the sender look good. The last leaked email made the sender look good. Work out who is leaking them.
- sown 16y agoNo, but their assistants or someone else might be getting to them. Who knows.