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Re: reflecting on PGP, keyservers, and the Web of Trust
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Wed Sep 6 10:53:51 2000
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 07:16:55 -0700
To: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
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At 10:47 PM 9/5/00 -0400, Dan Geer wrote:
> I can tell people never to accept
>an executable mailed to them from anywhere, which will get
>laughed at by all the people in the business world who...
[...who are digging their own graves if they routinely run programs
mailed to them, whether or not they laugh at you now.
On the positive side, I think my folks see my cautions as less paranoid
after they got a virus. Similarly with industry and DDoS attacks, or
snarfing credit cards via buffer overflow. Nothing like a publicized
catastrophe to increase public awareness, and eventually, vigilance.]
dh
