RE: [exim] Securing Email for the prying eyes of any governm…

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[ On Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 15:58:54 (+0000), Alan J. Flavell wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [exim] Securing Email for the prying eyes of any government
>
> However, the recipient *ought* to be operating in a regime which
> forbids them to execute code that has arrived via email, at least
> until they have done an in-depth security audit of the individual
> item.


Or at the very least the executable code arrived in a message that was
securely signed by a verified sender who can be blamed, and can pay, for
any damage that it might do. :-)

> In short, it's damnable bad manners to send anyone executable code as
> a mail attachment - even if the mail admin permits it to get through


Well said!

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