Monday, November 12, 2007

Reply feature with EMAIL is insecure - EMAIL BUG or INSECURE Requirement

Well have anyone, had ever thought about this paradox.

Email: Emails are suppose to serve the purpose of proof/evidence for a official correspondence.
All we do is, simply reply to a email. And this piece of email becomes a proof of the communication. Well, we do have the feature of read receipts or failure reports, and we all pretty much appreciate that.

But, my question is;
What suppose if we forward an email by editing the contents of the previous/below email?. EMAILS ALLOWS THAT.
What suppose the person, who reads the forwarded email and come to a conclusion of the manipulated is actually right?. EMAILS ALLOWS THAT.

Basically, what i want to say is;
Emails allow us to edit the contents, timestamp, subject of the previous emails and forward/reply this manipulated email to others. This is ridiculous and insecure.
We cant allow others to manipulate our emails.

May be, when we reply/forward a email, it would be nice, if they are made readonly.
I really dont know, is this really possible to this existing email design or or or ...,

So, what do u think about this? Do write your views on this.

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