Why would you trust your money to PNC Bank instead of, for example, me. It's the same reason, third party verification.
And YOU'RE not trusting the key, you're asking Google to do so. And while your'e reminding me, try reading what I wrote, and do a Bing search (since I'm beginning to believe you won't trust Google) for the articles about why that alternative is actually BETTER than the one you're complaining doesn't exist. On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Andrew Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh please Zack, explain to me in detail why I should trust a key signed by > VeriSign more than I trust a key generated and signed by, for example, me. > Perhaps I should let VeriSign choose my passwords for me, too, I'm sure > that would be much more secure. > > I remind you that Google *does *offer, as an alternative, *sending my > password in plaintext*, so there is clearly no policy which says I need > to be protected against my own presumed stupidity. Here you are mulling the > dangers of letting us use our own scissors, while Google is handing out > free shurikens. > > -Andrew > > On Sunday, 19 April 2015 22:49:08 UTC+1, Zack Tennant wrote: >> >> [...] >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
