The Internet and email is old at this point.

It can be reasonably argued that email links are a significant threat vector right now.

So far, we just keep trying to sandbox links or scan attachments, but it's still not stopping the threat.

My questions for comment:

  • Would removing anonymity from email reduce or remove this threat? If business blocked all uncertified email senders, would this threat be gone?
  • Why can't we do PKI well after a few decades?
  • Does anyone believe PKI could apply to individuals? In the context of identity for email, accounts, etc?

I see services like id.me and others and wonder why we can't get digital identity right and if we could, would it eliminate some of the major threats?

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  • D61 [any]
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    11 months ago

    Would removing anonymity from email reduce or remove this threat? If business blocked all uncertified email senders, would this threat be gone?

    So as a goober that keeps getting jobs where my employer mandates that I am assigned an email address from their private email system, is told to "practice cyber security awareness" blah blah blah, and then is immediately spammed by internal emails with a shit ton of links (from people who are strangers to me but actually work for the same employer) from inside the org, I don't think removing anonymity would eliminate the threat. I'm being habituated into opening, reading, and encouraged to click links from "strangers" by my employer.

    It might make it easier to for an attacker to ID a target though.