[2220] in WWW Security List Archive
PointCast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ygerman)
Fri Jun 7 10:38:23 1996
To: Chris Newton <chris@sandpiper.com>
Cc: www-security <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
From: ygerman <ygerman@genre.com>
Date: 7 Jun 96 8:49:40
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
I can tell you a horror stories about point cast as it is currently causing me
headaches within my company. If Pointcast is improperly configured especially
with a firewall in place it will fill up the logs with useless messages and do
so every second. If you have a message every second from a thousand users....
you are in big trouble examining your logs.
To: www-security @ ns2.rutgers.edu @ Internet
cc:
From: chris @ sandpiper.com (Chris Newton) @ Internet
Date: 06/06/96 05:42:55 PM
Subject: PointCast
Appologies if this has been talked about already, but does anyone have any good
pointers to (or information on) PointCast? Any direct experiences, good or bad?
(I'm obviously not asking for the URL http://www.pointcast.com, but rather
to any 3rd party eval/opinions of it)
I hear rumours of scary things about it in a security context, and wondered
if they could be substantiated
TIA
chris newton
webmaster/network security
sandpiper software consulting
