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Re: E-mail major cause of bad security says security expert

2002-05-16 11:47:31


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?

My only comment is that such a clearly incorrect assessment of the situation
isn't worthy of a response. There are plenty of Web security and privacy issues
that have nothing whatsoever to do with email.

                                Ned