Don't Panic.

Mark H. Wood mwood at iupui.edu
Tue May 15 17:06:26 CEST 2018


On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Mark Rousell wrote:
> Amongst other things this includes the following paragraph which, as I
> understand it, is essentially untrue:
> 
>     "There are currently no reliable fixes for the vulnerability. If you
>     use PGP/GPG or S/MIME for very sensitive communication, you should
>     disable it in your email client for now," said Sebastian Schinzel
>     <https://twitter.com/seecurity/status/995906576170053633>, a
>     professor of computer security at the University.

Heh.  "We've discovered that locks can be picked, so you should remove
all the locks from your doors right now."

-- 
Mark H. Wood
Lead Technology Analyst

University Library
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
755 W. Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-274-0749
www.ulib.iupui.edu
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