[Cryptography] Well Known Bad Idea: ask users to make security decisions, or If you *work* for Apple, please update your email software

[Kent Borg]

On 10/5/25 12:11 PM, John Levine wrote:
> Aw, come on. For the first three decades or so, mail programs all showed the
> address and it made no practical difference.

I guess you are right.

Consider educational that material purports to teach users that scammers 
will lie about their identity (/Hansel and Gretal/, Grimms' Fairy Tales, 
1812). Despite this material being very well distributed for well over 
200-years, some people are still being fooled by scammers who lie about 
their identity.

Clearly user education is pointless.

-kb
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