Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent

Tue May 15 12:13:17 UTC 2018

Brian Kantor <Brian at ampr.org> writes:

> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 05:34:31AM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 01:47:50PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> > TL;DR = Don't use HTML email [snip]
>> 
>> That's enough right there.  HTML markup in email is used exclusively
>> by three kinds of people: (1) ignorant newbies who don't know any
>> better (2) ineducable morons who refuse to learn (3) spammers.
>> There are no exceptions.
>> 
>> ---rsk
>
> Ah, if it only were those.  But the infestation has spread; nearly
> every corporate communication these days is polluted by HTML, with
> a very high percentage of that containing no content other than
> hyperlinks that say, in one form or another, "click on this link
> to read your message."

I don't see any contradiction here.

> Banks especially.

All three combined.

Bjørn