Re:Quora User Data Compromised
by jacquesm on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @02:46AM
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Email can be encrypted. Besides that most of the time these very same services have (broken) password reset processes that rely on that email address anyway so the security improvement is nil in practice.
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Re:Quora User Data Compromised
by closeparen on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @03:10AM
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No medical practice, HOA, etc. is ever going to ask its patrons to fiddle around with PGP. The receptionist is not going to ask my grandmother for her public key before her hip replacement. Email functionally cannot be encrypted unless all parties to the conversation are in a tiny cohort of computer enthusiasts.
Password reset is a noisy, active attack compared to eavesdropping somewhere in the path of an email.