PGP/MIME considered harmful for mobile

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 03:53:55 CET 2011


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El 27-02-2011 20:54, Jean-David Beyer escribió:
> Faramir wrote:
...
>>    IMHO they would be even more confused if they can read the message.
>> And some others see the attached signatures and think "Virus! Hit
>> delete, hit delete!".
...
> 
> If someone sees my inline signature and thinks Virus..., let them.
> If it were a virus, by the time they saw that it would be too late,
> would it not?

  Well, I was talking about attached signatures, like in PGP/MIME.

  But it would be interesting to receive a text saying "please compile
this virus source code and run it. Thanks"

  Best Regards
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