On 18 Apr 2020, at 11:04, Rich Felker <dal...@libc.org> wrote:
> It's not security theater because nobody's claiming it's secure.
> Rather it's a fairly weak form of hardening that increases the
> required capabilities an attacker needs to exploit a known-insecure
> system.
It is secure in the sense that the communication between the two ends fo the
connection cannot be intercepted.
Since this is the largest threat for email, it is the security that matters
most.
Email on each end is generally stored unencrypted, so the communication is what
matters.
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attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of
failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of
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