Comment Re:This is funny. (Score 1) 557
Should I take it your answer is "yes"?
For it to work in a corporate environment, it must be mandated by the company so that everyone does it, everyone must have a client that supports it, keys must exist and be distributed, and only then can everyone rely on an unsigned message being invalid. If your boss forgets to sign a message telling you to do something and you ignore it, you better have a company policy backing you up.
I don't see this as a big problem. Most people will use whatever's installed on their machines, because setting up a new client is too much hassle. And surely even Outlook has PGP add-ons.
To deal with the other issue, we do need extra utility - clients that will automatically sign, and automatically reject and return unsigned emails from addresses with known keys.
The hackers' main point of contention is with the fact that Ashley Madison charges users a fee of 15 pounds to carry out a "full delete" of their information if they decide to leave the site. Although users have the option of permanently hiding their profile free of charge, the company's advertisements claim that the full delete service is the only way to completely remove their information from the servers.
Still don't approve of the hackers, but I have a lot less sympathy for the company, if this is true.
Seriously. The Google car could do nothing that wouldn't also endanger other road users.
You know this for a fact? In this case, I'm sure there was nothing that it could do but how about the other 13 accidents?
Whether such a bizarre obligation exists or not doesn't change who was in the right and who was not.
Who cares who's in the right and who's in the wrong? I'd rather simply not be rear ended.
statistically speaking the best way to do that is to take the bus
Yes, but that would be a little extreme. Obviously we balance risk and utility. Is this really the sort of thing that needs to be spelled out? I'm not sure I see the point of this pedantry.
you can also take steps to...
Yes. You should do all these things. So should self driving cars.
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