Flashes of Panic

Today’s NYT has an article about phishing which reminds me that I failed to carry my explanation of asymmetric key signatures to a logical conclusion. There’s a simple way for companies to stop phishers and spammers from assuming their corporate identity to spam and attempting to swindle the Internet: sign your corporate communications.

Then, weeding through a weekend of stuff in my aggregator, I find Wolf Rentzsch arguing that RSS feeds are phishing-proof (including a thumbnail explanation of phishing for those who still haven’t heard of it, and also an argument that signed email isn’t going to happen; I’d point to GPGMail and Enigmail as signs of progress in that direction, but Microsoft has to get going.)

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