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RE: EMAIL != FTP

  • From: Robert Blayzor
  • Date: Fri May 25 15:54:37 2001

> It's not the attachments that's the problem.  It's companies that
> sell software
> that looks at attachments with a fundementally screwed-up security model.

Correct, but having that nice little convenience in almost every mail agent
out there now "because everyone uses attachments" makes it really easy to
exploit this.

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Robert Blayzor         IP Network Engineer, BOFH     BiznessOnline.com, Inc.
rblayzor@thebiz.net          noc@thebiz.net           http://www.thebiz.net/

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