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Article #368Re: SMTP SECURITY: A new (?) idea
From: Alan J Rosenthal
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:25
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:25
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>> These forgers will include system administrators and also people who break >> in to privileged accounts. > >As a former sysadm, I take offense at this remark and I think many current >ones will, too. I will give you the benefit of the doubt ... I did not mean this comment the way you are taking it. I apologize. Thanks for the benefit of the doubt. In fact, I meant somewhat the opposite. While I was writing that article, it occurred to me that some people would not take the threat too seriously because they would assume that sysadmins are trustworthy. Thus I felt it important to point out that people breaking in to privileged accounts (e.g. cracking root) were in a position to forge privileged-port-smtp mail too.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!dgp.toronto.edu!flaps Newsgroups: comp.security.misc From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) Subject: Re: SMTP SECURITY: A new (?) idea Message-ID: <1992Aug13.172531.4902@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> References: <1992Aug13.102249.16853@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1992Aug13.151514.14735@hal.com> Date: 13 Aug 92 21:25:31 GMT Lines: 14