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Re:Facebook Is Ending Support for PGP Encrypted Emails by sebstefan on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:06AM (#38217476)
Github asks you to log in again to add SSH keys in, this could've been similar

They're just looking for excuses

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Re:Facebook Is Ending Support for PGP Encrypted Emails by crtasm on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:45AM (#38217714)
A lot of account compromise is due to reused passwords so I'm not sure that's a complete solution.
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Re:Facebook Is Ending Support for PGP Encrypted Emails by Kwpolska on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:55AM (#38217800)
Sending a PGP-encrypted email with a verification link to activate the feature should solve that.
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Re:Facebook Is Ending Support for PGP Encrypted Emails by westurner on Friday November 10, 2023 @11:53AM (#38221170)
What are the disadvantages of only signing (and not encrypting the message body of) account reset emails?
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Re:Facebook Is Ending Support for PGP Encrypted Emails by sebstefan on Friday November 10, 2023 @09:03AM (#38218931)
The point is that much more sensitive things exist online and it's a solved problem
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Re:Facebook Is Ending Support for PGP Encrypted Emails by jhanschoo on Friday November 10, 2023 @09:56AM (#38219600)
What use case for FB relies on this feature?
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