Relying on the owner to note if something is incorrect is not how it works. Never the standard.https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/785994646455451648 …
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LOL. No. Email is just text. If it's not cryptographically signed, doctoring is trivial.
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That explains why criminals go to prison all the time based off Gmail returns.
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Chain of custody matters. Google can establish the provenance of any message *ON THEIR SERVERS* at least in theory. 1/
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Ahem. That was my point. I get what you're about to say, but you've already gotten to my point.
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ITT: someone who had no idea computers work tried their hand at explaining how computers work
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unless somehow you can confirm files using some checksum value
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how can they prevent tampering once files are taken? seems like they can be tampered if you have the files
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No, it certainly doesn't. If you can access an account, you can modify the contents of messages. Trivially.
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LOL. In what universe?
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Wow, are you in for a surprise.
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St. Augustine
@emptywheel Lord, please stop me from rooting around in private email hacks with no news standards. But just not yet.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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