19 Aug
2015
19 Aug
'15
6:24 p.m.
On 19-08-15 08:30:27, Alice Wonder wrote:
e-mail by its very design is not secure, SMTP creates "Man In The Middle" at every server along the way.
DANE exists and mail servers like postfix support this. My logfiles show me that mail.centos.org delivers straight to me without any servers along the way.
I'm not saying they shouldn't implement TLS on the list server, just not sure what the privacy or security benefit really would be.
Encryption ensures that third parties simply cannot follow their "collect all" strategy.