-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:42:20 +0000 Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:52:55AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > <snip> > > > > And some clients are so broken that they don't even show MIME messages > > correctly (OE...) > > It's worse than that (he's dead, Jim)... > > My godfather's OE claims that messages with attached signatures are > "unsafe", and blocks access to them entirely. It won't even let him > read the text of the message. > > And today I received a bounce from someone's misconfigured Windoze > system that they'd apparently been receiving debian-user mail on; > Norton Antivirus had rejected one of my posts to the list because it > had an "unsafe attachment", ie. the PGP signature. > > I can't help wondering if this is some kind of conspiracy to deter > people from using encryption-based systems... > It's actually a mechanism to force people to use M$ approved S/MIME with 3rd party certificates. You can't let the end-user have control of their own encryption after all, how would you get them to pay the annual licence fees ;) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAZJMMuLPldPuWZnARAqVxAJwLhZOyfQfdlV7ETxc41kXD6XC+QgCfejd8 sQz2NGyg3v9Jb9P0NzIgvs4= =ZXn9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
