PCbanter - View Single Post - Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed

**anon**

Carlos E. R. pretended :
On 24/09/2018 08.48, anon wrote:
Carlos E. R. was thinking very hard :
On 23/09/2018 15.45, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
Hackers target real estate deals, with devastating impact

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hackers-target-real-estate-deals-devastating-impact-015558592.html

«...and at closing time wired $272,000 from their bank following
instructions they received by email.

Within hours, the money had vanished.

Unbeknownst to the Colorado couple, the email account for the real
estate settlement company had been hacked, and fraudsters had
altered the wiring instruction to make off with the hefty sum
representing a big chunk of the Butchers' life savings, according
to a lawsuit filed in state court.»

* Here is a very simple PGP client that will automatically set
itself up and is simple to use.* You should insist a company you
are dealing with uses PGP.* I refused to buy precious metals once
from a company because they wouldn't communicate with me using
PGP.* They were foolishly fearful that the IRS would think they
were doing something illegal.* So they opened their customers to
being revealed and endangered.

PGPG, huh?

And how would you know that the PGP public key you have is in fact
the key of the correct real state agency, and not of some other
"person"? How are you going to ensure the proper chain of trust,
hein?

That's assuming that the hackers don't have control of the agency
computer.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gentlegpg/

Some other:

https://www.gpg4win.org/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ppgp/

*Key are signed.

By whom?

You need to walk to the company first, in person, and exchange keys.
And then make sure not to download other keys and not to trust the
web of trust, because you do not control who signs what.

I know quite well PGP, I use it, and it is not going to work for
business.

So do nothing, PLEASE! My your fall be great and embittering!