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Re:Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phi... by merlinscholz on Saturday December 26, 2020 @07:51AM (#25543136)
From where would you get the private PGP key of the person who owns the email address?
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Re:Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phi... by eznzt on Saturday December 26, 2020 @08:16AM (#25543258)
That is not what the comment says. The comment says:

>but all these scams would not work in a world where authors and publishers only trust signed e-mails.

Not that people will take the time and effort to verify the signatures. Not to mention that you can still call them and say "eeeh I'm Jones, you know, I just had to renew my signature, so it won't check, but it's me. bye"

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