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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: 2) by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 25 2018, @07:21PM (1 child)

    by Fnord666 (652) on Wednesday July 25 2018, @07:21PM (#712592) Homepage

    Anyway, yeah, if google wanted to eliminate phishing, shoving all gmail using victims thru some machine learning to either torture the user with fake phishing into eternity thus keeping them away from real dangerous work, or verifying they're not idiots, would be a very "google" way to do it.

    One thing to point out, at least in the context of this article, is that this only pertains to Google employees, not your everyday GMail user.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday July 25 2018, @08:06PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Wednesday July 25 2018, @08:06PM (#712627) Journal

    Wait.

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