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100% agree. I remember a friend who typed in SMTP commands to send his dad a Christmas email from santa@northpole.com. There are alternatives, they just haven'
by Communitivity 8y ago
100% agree. I remember a friend who typed in SMTP commands to send his dad a Christmas email from santa@northpole.com.
There are alternatives, they just haven't caught on as an email replacement. For example, I suspect the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) can do everything email can do, and it supports E2E encryption. XMPP addresses would still be exposed, as any messaging needs the message routing information decryptable by the server, but much better that email.
- StavrosK 8y ago> telnet mailserver.com 25 HELO me MAIL FROM: santa@northpole.com RCPT TO: friends@dad.com DATA You've been a good boy. Santa .
- simias 8y agoSpoofing email is trivial but it's also usually trivial to detect, at least if the real provider uses modern technologies like SPF, DKIM and DMARC. I can easily forge an SMTP message from sjobs@apple.com and send it from my computer but it'll be considered junk by any mail service worth using.