Re:Facebook Is Ending Support for PGP Encrypted Emails
by dale_glass on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:27AM
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That only means it failed in its aim, and needs to be replaced with something better. If you really rely on encryption for something important, a system so easily broken is no good.
And "state actor funded"? Come on, the spam attack was absolutely trivial. It required no state funding, just a single person with an axe to grind, a target, and a trivial shell script. Attaching spam signatures was a thing decades ago already and didn't require any real resources of technical knowledge.
And "state actor funded"? Come on, the spam attack was absolutely trivial. It required no state funding, just a single person with an axe to grind, a target, and a trivial shell script. Attaching spam signatures was a thing decades ago already and didn't require any real resources of technical knowledge.