[37914] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: EMAIL != FTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Blayzor)
Fri May 25 15:53:35 2001
From: "Robert Blayzor" <rblayzor@thebiz.net>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:11:31 -0400
Message-ID: <GNEIJMGJNDJMNEGPDBGBGEJLDHAA.rblayzor@thebiz.net>
In-Reply-To: <200105251629.f4PGTk113413@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> It's not the attachments that's the problem. It's companies that
> sell software
> that looks at attachments with a fundementally screwed-up security model.
Correct, but having that nice little convenience in almost every mail agent
out there now "because everyone uses attachments" makes it really easy to
exploit this.
--
Robert Blayzor IP Network Engineer, BOFH BiznessOnline.com, Inc.
rblayzor@thebiz.net noc@thebiz.net http://www.thebiz.net/
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