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- Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert
- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: SMTP mail
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.021534.6708@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <92209.190519KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 02:15:34 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- In article <92209.190519KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET> Karl Keyte <KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET> writes:
- >
- >The SMTP has recently been removed at our site because of its well-known
- >security hole.
-
- Would you like to enlighten us as to the nature of this "well known
- security hole".
-
- It is well known that email can be forged. Most people don't consider
- this a security problem, although it may present an identification
- problem. If you consider email forgery a security hole, then I presume
- you have also shut off all paper mail, which can just as easily be
- forged.
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