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>Spam checking on content isn't possible

How does encrypted spam work? Spammers encrypt message with your public key?



At the moment, encrypted spam doesn't exist. But only because there aren't enough people using encryption to make it worthwhile for the spammers to invest time doing it.

Theoretically, a spammer could scan the public keyservers for email addresses and public PGP keys and then send encrypted spam to all of those people. If ever a well targeted spam mailshot was sent, that would be it. But would you really want to get on the bad side of thousands of tech nerds?




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