Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source)
Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source)
Posted Nov 6, 2025 15:14 UTC (Thu) by geert (subscriber, #98403)In reply to: Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source) by dskoll
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The best ones are the emails from the government (delivered multiple times, through multiple portals), which tell you you have a new message.
After logging in securily, you can download the message, which is a PDF file containing a nice formal letter on government letterhead telling you you have a new document at another government site.
After logging in on the second site, you can finally enjoy the real document, which turns out not to be that urgent and important anyway...
After logging in securily, you can download the message, which is a PDF file containing a nice formal letter on government letterhead telling you you have a new document at another government site.
After logging in on the second site, you can finally enjoy the real document, which turns out not to be that urgent and important anyway...
Posted Nov 6, 2025 18:59 UTC (Thu)
by rschroev (subscriber, #4164)
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Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source)
Are you talking about Belgium? Because that sounds just exactly like it. Or is there another government with systems just as convoluted?