[LINK] Another phishing tale

[Glen Turner]

Kim Holburn wrote:

> Banks are in a quandary these days.  If they do want to send customers  
> emails what do they do?  I suggested to them they could digitally sign  
> their emails or they could use their own messaging system that you get  
> when you log in to their web site (much as I hate web based messaging  
> systems).
> 
> I don't know that they understood about the digital signatures.

Yep, I think that horse had bolted. We could have had a secure e-mail
system where fraudulent senders stood out, but during the formative years
of e-mail clients the Attorney-Generals Department actively suppressed
all addition of cryptographic technology to e-mail clients.  There was
an coordinated international agreement between western governments to do
this -- the Wassenaar Arrangement.

Now we're paying the price for AGD's short sightedness.

-- 
  Glen Turner