IP: Yet another e-mail filter effect: [risks] Risks Digest 21.50

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:47:41 +0200
> From: j.bos () interpay nl
> Subject: Yet another e-mail filter effect
>
> The IACR (International organisation of Cryptology Research) has someone on
> its Board of Directors named Don Beaver.  The direct result of this is that
> the recent IACR newsletter (a 34K document full of relevant news on the
> cryptologic community) was rejected by our company firewall, because his
> name was in there too many times. It also contained other "dirty" words,
> such as LaTeX, hardcore, and so on.
>
> Our IT department told me that the message would *not* have been rejected if
> it was split in two, since the number of dirty words would have been halved.
> X-|
>
> Sigh. I though cryptology was to prevent us from this kind of misery.
>
> Jurjen N.E. Bos, Risk Management / Information Security Services
> Interpay Nederland BV, Postbus 30500, 3503 AH Utrecht  tel. +31 30 283 6815



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