[Cryptography] Facebook on the state of STARTTLS

[Lodewijk andré de la porte]

2014-05-21 2:30 GMT+02:00 Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com>:

> Let's divide received mail into two buckets:  Email from someone I already
> know, and email from someone I don't know.  Messages in the first bucket
> should use a private key agreed upon between me and that other party.  A
> spammer can't create mail like this.  (Well, he *can*, but only by being
> present "inside" my correspondent, with access to his private key store.
>  If my correspondent is vulnerable to that kind of thing, our communication
> isn't secure anyway - and in fact the spam provides me with a service, as
> it tells me my correspondent has been compromised.)


Companies on Facebook are working hard to find out how much people are
willing to trade "not being spammed" for "maybe winning something".
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