Mallory get's access to your computer and replaces a public key from[...]
one of your communication partners with a fake one and which Mallory
assigns trust level "Ultimate", so that it shows up in Thunderbird /
On Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 11:40:37 AM UTC-6, Stefan Claas wrote:
[...]
Mallory get's access to your computer and replaces a public key from[...]
one of your communication partners with a fake one and which Mallory assigns trust level "Ultimate", so that it shows up in
Thunderbird /
Whenever someone breaches security and gains complete access to do
such things it is bad... real bad. This is not a PGP issue but a top
security issue on your entire system and you need ways to detect if
someone was able to do this or there is nothing you can trust on your
own system!
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