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Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail

posted by martyb on Wednesday July 25 2018, @03:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the [un]intended-consequences? dept.

canopic jug writes:

Brian Krebs has written a blog post about how Google has been using security keys to neutralize phishing of their employees. It stops the phishing quite well but comes at a high cost. No, not the hardware cost of a security dongle, it's the cost of losing third-party mail applications like Thunderbird and their add-ons like Enigmail.

I have been using Advanced Protection for several months now without any major issues, although it did take me a few tries to get it set up correctly. One frustrating aspect of having it turned on is that it does not allow one to use third-party email applications like Mozilla’s Thunderbird or [others]. I found this frustrating because as far as I can tell there is no integrated solution in Gmail for PGP/OpenGPG email message encryption, and some readers prefer to share news tips this way. Previously, I had used Thunderbird along with a plugin called Enigmail to do that.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @05:09PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @05:09PM (#712487)

    Actually, It's Putin with a Hillary mask on.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @07:22PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @07:22PM (#712594)

    An he would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids!

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:58PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:58PM (#713224)

      I must have stopped watching that episode too early. When I last checked, he was still getting away with it.

  • (Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:46AM

    by arslan (3462) on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:46AM (#712852)

    Wha? Why would Putin make himself more ugly?