TIL about "secure email gateways", i.e., email proxies that basically break non-repudiation and confidentiality:
It encrypts and signs outgoing mail whilst decrypting and validating the signature of incoming items.
An example of #SecurityCircus that also checks some #compliance boxes on the side.
Twenty years ago in Russia, I could go to a train station and board a train without taking my keys out of my pocket. Life got better and more secure since then, so now you need to empty your pockets and present your backpack for screening. It’s funnier on public transport. In Moscow, you can use the same ticket to travel by subway and city train. The train can be MCD (diameter, goes further to the suburbs) or MCC (ring road in Moscow). At the MCC, it is mandatory to turn out the pockets and present bags for screening. Most MCD stations don’t even have the equipment for that. In subway there is equipment, to the extent that the lobbies of old stations feel tight and crowded, and the ever-vigilant security guards selectively pull potential terrorists out of the stream of people for screening. They don’t check everyone, though. I ride to work every day with the same backpack, with the same laptop inside it. I undergo the humiliating screening procedure once or twice a week; why I get chosen (or not) on a given day is a mistery.
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