Re: [perpass] Another mail-related proposal

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

Just on this particular attack:

On 08/18/2013 05:33 PM, Jim Fenton wrote:
> Here's a possible attack: someone sends you a message in the clear
> falsely quoting you as conspiring criminally with them or some third
> party. 

I think that's maybe on the boundaries of the scope here.
Even if the sender and recipient both think the message
is innocuous, the monitoring folks might not, so I'm not
sure that specific malicious content like that is what we
ought be worrying about in this context.

Put another way, that's an attack that's enabled by
monitoring, since if the monitoring wasn't likely or easy,
the attacker probably wouldn't try this method.

S.