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Subject: Re: list protection
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb @ koobera . math . uic . edu>
Date: 28 Mar 1997 03:01:22 -0000
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com

> If the only way you can think of to announce your private
> little take-off of list-abuse (grow some originality, maybe?)

list-protection predates list-abuse; not that you care about facts.

> is to attack list-managers by forging Brent's address,

Works better to attack it by sending mail to -outgoing, I think.

> Let me guess -- you'll promote "greater security" by 
> telling folks how to hack any list not running qmail?

qmail isn't a mailing list manager.

Anyway, yes, I will point out security holes where I see them.

Several people in my crypto class were able to break majordomo's cookie
system, under time pressure, as an extra-credit problem on the midterm.
You're a fool if you think spammers will have trouble doing the same.

> You disgust me, sir.

You disgust me too. You're attacking the people who point out security
problems, rather than working to help fix the problems.

---Dan
Let your users manage their own mailing lists. http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html


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