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> Practically no one knows of any consequence they've suffered for sticking to plaintext email. Quite the contrary. Unauthenticated plaintext email is a major
by inetknght 7y ago
> Practically no one knows of any consequence they've suffered for sticking to plaintext email.
Quite the contrary. Unauthenticated plaintext email is a major vector for malware and phishing.
- hoistbypetard 7y agoEncryption does not do a thing to prevent malware or phishing. Quite the contrary, it prevents the various middle boxes we have scanning our email from scanning for malware or phishing attempts. There are signing schemes that could help, but they'd not help much if the mail were encrypted before signing unless you're imagining client implementations wildly different than what we see today.