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RE: Administrivia and spam rate - OFF TOPIC FOR FW..DEAD ON FOR SECURITY
From: "Norm McLeod" <normcleod () charter net>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:42:56 -0600
Dear Sir...and list You, and most, consider PGP to be the deFacto standard in digital signatures, and encryption. I of course, agree, except that in my business experience, PGP is too hard to use for most users, you know, the ID-10-T syndrome. AS a matter of course, excluding other digital signatures (such as the NIST standard), precludes functionality that WILL be implemented in the near future. I foresee a time where corporate email users will be stopped at the Mail server IF the email is NOT digitally signed, and in S/MIME format. I see corporations getting lawyers in on the email virus issue, and liability placed, whereby, a corporation that does NOT stop the spread of these script kiddies be held partially accountable. TO implement this, email would only be accepted if it can be determined where it came from. Hence digital signatures...... Signed by a 3rd party CA, which precludes PGP. I personally have stopped using PGP, since the 9-11 incident, so the NSA has less to do. I expect they capture virtually all PGP encrypted email, and give it the once over. Whereas, the Microsoft Crypto API (IMHO) has a back door for them to easily look inside. There is nothing I can think of that I would try to hide from the NSA (as long as they didn't share it with certain other governmental agencies...lol), actually not then, except for the fact that IF I want privacy in this country, I should have it. OK... Rambling over As a list administrator, I certainly understand your rules, but to open up discussion on these issues, I replied. Norm McLeod digital signature attached (www.thawte.com) (NOT THIS TIME) vCard attached for contact information (NOT THIS TIME) -----Original Message----- From: firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com] On Behalf Of Marcus J. Ranum Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:23 AM To: firewall-wizards () nfr com Subject: [fw-wiz] Administrivia and spam rate - I'm not sure what's going on out there but the spam rate has increased dramatically in the last few weeks. :( Of 35 messages in today's inbox, all but 3 were spam. :( Since I've got your attention, let me remind you of some administrivia: - Please do not post in HTML or MIME. I will reject such messages with a request to re-post them in plain text. The only non-plain text that I'll let through is PGP signatures. - If I get something in a character set that I can't read or a language I can't read (I read English, French, some German, and a bit of Latin) I'll discard the message on the assumption that it is spam. A huge amount of incoming spam is from yahoo.kr and is unreadable. - Please be considerate about trimming included text in replies. Try to keep only included text that is relevant to the topic of discussion. I won't police this issue carefully, but I may reject messages in the form of: <100 lines of included text> <one line witty comment> - If I get bounces from your mailbox I will unsubscribe you, even if it is a transient error. Why? I have no idea if it is a transient error and if I wait I'll just have more bounces to deal with. If you find yourself no longer getting firewall-wizards that's probably what happened. See below... - The list interface is at: http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards and if you want to edit your options or make sure you're subscribed there is a form for doing so at the bottom. mjr. --- Marcus J. Ranum Chief Technology Officer http://www.ranum.com NFR Security, Inc. Woodbine, Maryland http://www.nfr.com Rockville, Maryland _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Administrivia and spam rate - Marcus J. Ranum (Mar 13)
- RE: Administrivia and spam rate - OFF TOPIC FOR FW..DEAD ON FOR SECURITY Norm McLeod (Mar 13)
- Re: Administrivia and spam rate - OFF TOPIC FOR FW..DEAD ON FOR SECURITY Brad Van Orden (Mar 14)
- Re: Administrivia and spam rate - OFF TOPIC FOR FW..DEAD ON FOR SECURITY Chad Schieken (Mar 14)
- Re: Administrivia and spam rate - OFF TOPIC FOR FW..DEAD ON FOR SECURITY Paul Robertson (Mar 15)
- Re: Administrivia and spam rate - OFF TOPIC FOR FW..DEAD ON FOR SECURITY Ryan Russell (Mar 14)
- Re: Administrivia and spam rate - OFF TOPIC FOR FW..DEAD ON FOR SECURITY Mark (Mar 15)
- Re: Administrivia and spam rate - OFF TOPIC FOR FW..DEAD ON FOR SECURITY Brad Van Orden (Mar 14)
- RE: Administrivia and spam rate - OFF TOPIC FOR FW..DEAD ON FOR SECURITY Norm McLeod (Mar 13)