Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed

From	"Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.privacy.anon-server, alt.os.linux, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject	Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed
Date	2018-09-24 13:18 -0400
Message-ID	<g0skjkFs60rU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<309a76cf8bed5568f4d87d680befa055@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> <g0quv3Fhk7dU1@mid.individual.net> <poamea$asa$1@news.mixmin.net>

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On 24/09/2018 08.48, anon wrote:
> Carlos E. R. was thinking very hard :
>> On 23/09/2018 15.45, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
>>> Hackers target real estate deals, with devastating impact
>>>
>>> <https://www.yahoo.com/news/hackers-target-real-estate-deals-devastating-impact-015558592.html>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> «...and at closing time wired $272,000 from their bank following
>> instructions they received by email.
>>
>> Within hours, the money had vanished.
>>
>> Unbeknownst to the Colorado couple, the email account for the real
>> estate settlement company had been hacked, and fraudsters had altered
>> the wiring instruction to make off with the hefty sum representing a
>> big chunk of the Butchers' life savings, according to a lawsuit filed
>> in state court.»
>>
>>
>>>   Here is a very simple PGP client that will automatically set itself
>>> up and is simple to use.  You should insist a company you are dealing
>>> with uses PGP.  I refused to buy precious metals once from a company
>>> because they wouldn't communicate with me using PGP.  They were
>>> foolishly fearful that the IRS would think they were doing something
>>> illegal.  So they opened their customers to being revealed and
>>> endangered.
>>>
>>
>> PGPG, huh?
>>
>> And how would you know that the PGP public key you have is in fact the
>> key of the correct real state agency, and not of some other "person"?
>> How are you going to ensure the proper chain of trust, hein?
>>
>> That's assuming that the hackers don't have control of the agency
>> computer.
>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gentlegpg/
>>>
>>>
>>> Some other:
>>>
>>> https://www.gpg4win.org/
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/ppgp/
>>>
>>>
> 
>  Key are signed.

By whom?

You need to walk to the company first, in person, and exchange keys. And
then make sure not to download other keys and not to trust the web of
trust, because you do not control who signs what.

I know quite well PGP, I use it, and it is not going to work for business.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E.R.

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Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201809.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2018-09-23 19:45 +0000
  Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-23 22:03 -0400
    Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-24 10:27 +0000
      Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-24 14:11 +0100
        Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-24 15:20 +0000
          Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-24 17:49 +0100
      Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2018-09-24 09:57 -0600
        Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-24 16:40 +0000
    Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed anon <noreply@mixnym.net> - 2018-09-24 07:48 -0500
      Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-24 13:18 -0400
        Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed anon <noreply@mixnym.net> - 2018-09-25 08:16 -0500
          Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-25 10:26 -0400
            Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-09-25 17:17 +0200
              Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:16 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:24 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:47 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:56 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-26 22:20 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 00:43 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-27 11:21 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 11:52 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-27 12:10 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 12:15 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-27 14:31 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-09-27 20:07 +0000
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 16:39 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-28 09:45 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-28 09:52 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-28 14:22 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-28 14:26 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-28 15:43 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-28 15:54 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-27 06:52 +0100
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-27 11:22 -0400
  Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2018-09-24 08:37 -0700

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