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Article #257Re: Using news for internal communications
From: David Gast
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 1990 22:00
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 1990 22:00
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Nick Szabo writes: > Several have pointed out the lack of security in news. IMHO this may be > a feature, not a bug... I don't understand everything the author is trying to say, so my comments may be slightly off, but ... Mail is not secure either. For example, any user who can become root on his machine can usually send mail under any name that he wishes. (I said usually because there are exceptions). Even if you cannot become root, there are well known, previously published methods of faking mail addresses. David Gast
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!limbo!taylor From: gast@CS.UCLA.EDU (David Gast) Newsgroups: comp.society Subject: Re: Using news for internal communications Message-ID: <1556@limbo.Intuitive.Com> Date: 28 Dec 90 22:00:16 GMT Sender: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 15 Approved: taylor@Limbo.Intuitive.Com