Re: [dmarc-ietf] Response to a claim in draft-crocker-dmarc-author-00 security considerations

Dave Crocker on behalf of Kurt Andersen <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 17 July 2020 21:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Response to a claim in draft-crocker-dmarc-author-00 security considerations
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In article <cd9258e6-3917-2380-dd9b-66d74f3a64d3@gmail.com> you write:
>> I'd counter by personal anecdote that we have had to undertake 
>> security remediations because of messages which were forwarded by our 
>> CEO to other employees for responses which happened to contain malware 
>> and/or bad links. ...

>Except that the problem isn't the email address, especially since almost 
>no one sees those any more.  And the display name isn't protected.

Do we have any recent numbers on how many users see the From address rather
than or in addition to the display name?

Signed,
uh, someone