Encouraging email security.

[J Irving]

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* Ryan Malayter <rmalayter@bai.org> [2003.05.22 10:08 -0500]:
> From: Werner Koch [mailto:wk@gnupg.org] 
> >People know that they can not trust whats on an envelope; 
> >maybe except for the timestamp of the postal service.
> 
> Ah, but people actually *don't* know this about email. 

I agree.  I was recently in a "sexual harassment" class where the
teacher, a lawyer, virtually rolled his eyes and laughed at the
"I didn't send that email" defense.  I suggested that it was
trivial to spoof the origin of an email; he said that it doesn't
matter what you can do, it only matters what a jury of your peers
think you can do.  He clearly thought that the claim held no
credibility in any sensible person's mind.

cheers
j
- -- 
I must review my disbelief in angels.
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