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Re: mail port

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sven)
Thu Nov 9 14:01:21 1995

To: "Ross F. Jimenez" <rfjimen@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 1995 22:17:51 MST." <Pine.SUN.3.91.951108221322.16290B-100000@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 16:24:07 +0100
From: Sven <courier@ufc.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

> I have a question... you can telnet to a mail port (25) and send mail 
> from it,,to any person, and put it's from anybody you want, are you not 
> suppose to do this,, or can anybody do this, can the mail be tracked ?? 
> It would seem like a big security flaw if you could send false mail so 
> easily... ??? 

Please keep this mailing list on-topic (i.e. www + security)
Refer to the various security newsgroups for questions like this.
Thank you.

-Sven Neuhaus
-- 
x(_,s,c)char *s;{return _&1?*s?*s-c?x(_,++s,c):7[s]:0:_&2?
x(--_,"!/*,xq-ih9]v$=ye&S usr\nm@ps1n%ag.8fNdzy",c):_&4?*s?
x(_,s+1,putchar(x(_-2,"^&%!*)",*s))):0:0;}main(){return 
x(4,"]xhrvnh$/m$ueuxhrS1$aaip !r@p%heuxhrS !r@p%he",5);}



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