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Dumb bug of the week: Outlook staples your encrypted emails to, er, plaintext copies when sending me

  • October 12, 2017
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You're formatting messages the wrong way

 
By Iain Thomson in San Francisco 11 Oct 2017  Attention anyone using Microsoft Outlook to encrypt emails. Researchers at security outfit SEC Consult have found a bug in Redmond's software that causes encrypted messages to be sent out with their unencrypted versions attached.
 
You read that right: if you can intercept a network connection transferring an encrypted email, you can just read off the unencrypted copy stapled to it, if the programming blunder is triggered.
 
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  • October 12, 2017
It appears Microsoft coder's are overworked and need to slow down when coding...............errors are costly.