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		darksaga on Sept 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Researchers’ Typosquatting Stole 20 GB of E-Mail F... Yeah, it's still shocking to me how many fortune 500 companies still don't understand how vulnerable they are to simple hacks like this. I would've thought it would be SOP (standard operating procedure) to encrypt their email years ago. I guess a normal level of paranoia hasn't quite reached those companies yet huh?

pinko on Sept 9, 2011 [–]

No, email encryption is a godawful mess and impossible for normal humans to use.

And you can't control who sends you email.

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