[Full-Disclosure] Re: NEVER open attachments

[Blue Boar]

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> If anything, you should *encourage* the use of PGP or S/MIME to sign mail,

Absolutely.

> because even if my machine gets whacked by a virus and starts spewing correctly
> signed mail, you will *know* it's my machine doing it and not some
> address-scraping virus on a machine in Zanzibar or someplace.

Well, if a worm nails your machine to the point where it has your 
private keys, there's nothing stopping it from carrying a copy on its 
way to Zanzibar, for purposes of spoofing as you.

We'd at least know you were compromised at one point, though. :)

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