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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:12:34 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: just me <matt@snark.net> Cc: nanog@merit.edu In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33L0.0308201439030.15448-100000@pants.snark.net> Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu just me(matt@snark.net)@2003.08.20 14:41:02 +0000: > Please don't pretend that your MUA-de-jour is somehow invulnerable by > design, unless you've audited every line of code yourself. I don't. Mutt and similar MUAs are prone to misconfiguration, which makes them vulnerable to some degree, but this fact alone does not expose enough surface for implementation of an internet-wide worm attack ;-) Perhaps, Outlook is a secure and performant email solution - in, say, 3 to 4 years from now, but this means a drastic change of course for the vendor. In end-user application design, finding the right mix between security and and convenience (which tend to be mutually exclusive, in one way or the other) is a critical design decision. You get the point. > On a different angle, the apparent problem of a software product being > vulnerable to an exploit is not solved by deploying a - albeit > well-patched - application monoculture worldwide. Risk is lowered by > using more well-designed software packages out there. Diversity is the > name of the game, it's nature's solution and it seems to work quite > well. > > I completely agree. Which is why I discourage people from using > Outlook Express as well as Mutt. So the interesting question in context of this email thread is: what do you encourage them for? Regards, /k -- > Horngren's Observation: > Among economists, the real world is often a special case. webmonster.de -- InterNetWorkTogether -- built on the open source platform http://www.webmonster.de/ - ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ - http://www.rohrbach.de/ GnuPG: 0xDEC948A6 D/E BF11 83E8 84A1 F996 68B4 A113 B393 6BF4 DEC9 48A6 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 10x
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