Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft Outlook Vulnerability: S/MIMELossof Integrity

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:19 AM, ACROS Security Lists <lists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Valdis,
>
>> No, that's how to do it *hardline*.  There's many in the
>> security industry that will explain to you that it's also
>> doing it *wrong*.  Hint - the first time that HR sends out a
>> posting about a 3-day window next week to change your
>> insurance plan without penalty, signs it with something that
>> doesn't match the From:, and the help desk is deluged by
>> phone calls from employees who can't read the mail, the guy
>> who put "You shall not pass" in place will be starting a job hunt.
>
> If there was an industry standard specifying the you-shall-not-pass for all 
> web
> browsers, it wouldn't be the guy (developer) who put this roadblock in place 
> that
> would start a job hunt but someone within the company whose job was to avoid 
> the
> roadblock by making sure the cert that HR is using was okay. That would 
> happen a
> couple of times, and then not any more, as people have great capacity for 
> learning.
>
> ....
> ... If I get an encrypted
> message that was mistakenly not encrypted with my key, it would be very 
> productive to
> have a "Just decrypt anyway" button but we obviously don't have that. ...
A lot of folks would like to have that button ;)

Jeff

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