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

2002-05-17 00:19:05

On Thu, 16 May 2002 20:08:20 +0200, you 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?

Such a guy is "director of technology" ?   ;-)

Email is designed to transport messages - not to start programs.
That's all.


-- 
Juergen