In linux.debian.user, Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Who would want to spoof YOUR Mail. >>=20 >> I have been on this list for 19 years now and do not recall anyone being >> spoofed. From the tenor of your mails, I doubt anyone would gain >> anything from it. > > This is fallacious, dangerous, and probably insulting thinking. > > I'm sure that many people on this list are eg, sysadmins for large or > important installations. Or perhaps they are researchers, > decision-makers, free software developers, or any of a myriad of > other important things. > > If you're at least some of the time sending mail that is important to be > reliably attributed to you, it *absolutely* makes sense to sign that > mail.
Yeah, but to a *mailing* *list* ??? I think not... > If you're signing some mail, you might as well sign all of it, as > this will habituate people to expect your mail to be signed, and avoid > you needing to decide what's important enough to sign. It also acts as a > nice signal that you can handle encrypted mail, which needs to be used > more widely. > So, since I sometimes need big, thigh high rubber boots to keep my feet and legs dry and clean, I should just wear my big rubber boots everywhere all time then, right? That way whether I'm at the grocery store, the office, or the barn there'll be no worries. :D Seriously, when people sign every mail with a key (or request email return receipts) they're either saying "look how cool *I* am", or "my desire to $[express my geekiness | indulge my paranoia] trumps your wish to simply read email". Besides, if everyone signed all mail it'd be a very short matter of time til the means to spoof any gpg/pgp key would appear. If you and I work together on a secret project for a defense contractor, or in banking or something it makes senseto sign business-related emails to one another. For casual communication it's just madness. Of course, that's merely my opinion. :) -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120407204909.GA5025@radhesyama