Edgar Lovecraft [3/2/2004 7:52 AM] :
> And how exactly does 'hiding' who you are help security as the SMTP client
> already knows who they are connected to... this makes no sense at all
> for that purpose, I do understand not advertising the exim version, or for
> that exim is being used at all in the HELO Banner, not that profiling
> cannot find that out any way (or at least a close approximation).
The fans of security by obscurity have their own convoluted logic (!)
that I don't claim to understand.
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mv: cannot move `linux' to `Gnu/Linux': No such file or directory
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