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E-mail major cause of bad security says security expert

2002-05-16 11:08:52

At 16:51 -0700 02-04-15, Monty Solomon <monty(_at_)roscom(_dot_)com> wrote:
"All of the security and privacy issues on the Web now relate to e-mail,"
said Adam Shostack, director of technology at Zero-Knowledge Systems, a
Montreal-based privacy and security company. "The shame about this behavior
is that it's going on surreptitiously and people are not given an obvious
way to opt out."  [...]

Any comments on this, which I found in the RISKS mailing
list. Bad standards, or bad implementations?
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Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/