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		cygned on Feb 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Encrypted email is still a pain A client's admin sends credentials via email - including logins and passwords for mission critical infrastructure. When asking him about security concerns he said: "Our mail server's using HTTPS, everything is secure" I haven't responded to that.

andai on Feb 14, 2017 [–]

Noob question: what are the problems here? Mail server being compromised, and/or any of the sender/recipient machines?

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