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There should be no need to make claims of forgery. The mere fact that an email can be forged will substantially reduce the likelihood of email being used, unless clear providence can be provided.

At the moment that providence can be proved with DKIM. Remove DKIM and now bad actors need to prove that they actually broke into someone’s emails and stole them. A much high bar to pass, especially as it may mean incriminating yourself of a crime.

Emails become just as useful as find a pile of top secret papers on the floor. Unless you can prove the source of those papers everyone is going to ignore you.



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