Re: IPconnect: LOW COST Email/Internet Server Software for LANs

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From: Mike Scher
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:00

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In chi.internet John B. Hines <jhines@enteract.com> wrote:
: tqbf@joshua.enteract.com (Thomas H. Ptacek) wrote:
: >Or a copy of any free Unix operating system, which will provide these
: >services out of the box.

["backdoored" IP mailer package]

: As you have said many times over, security isn't simple, nor cheap.

But it -should- aspire to simplicity.  It just costs a lot to make it
simple.  KISS requires a kind of mental discipline a lot of programmers
seem to find particularly costly.

      -M

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From: Mike Scher <strange@netural.com>
Subject: Re: IPconnect: LOW COST Email/Internet Server Software for LANs
Date: 1997/10/16
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